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THE MASTER OF THE LAZZARONI MADONNA (ACTIVE FLORENCE C. 1375)
A triptych of The Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels; The Angel of the Annunciation and The Adoration of the Magi on the left wing; The Virgin Annunciate and the Crucifixion on the right wing
tempera and gold on panel, shaped top
2714 x 22 in. (69.2 x 55.9 cm.), the wings extended
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. W.C.H.M. Georgi, the grandfather of the present owner, and by descent.
Brought to you by
John Hawley
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Lot Essay

Richard Offner first assembled the corpus of paintings by this fourteenth-century Florentine master under the placeholder name `The Master of the Two Madonnas', though he later revised the name, working with Klara Steinweg, to the current pseudonym based on the Madonna and Child with Two Angels formerly in the Lazzaroni collection, Paris (M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400, Florence, 1975, p. 239, note 169). This distinctive painter was active in the late trecento and is thought to have trained in the workshop of Jacopo di Cione, called Orcagna. He also appears to have drawn inspiration from the works of Andrea Bonaiuti and Cenni di Francesco. In 1393, he completed the allegorical figures for the fresco of the Virtues in the Palazzo Comunale di San Miniato together with the latter of these painters.
The present triptych is characteristic of the Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna’s work, particularly in the idiosyncratic, stylized treatment of the drapery, which can be observed in the triptych of the Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints in the Cini collection, Venice. We are grateful to Laurence Kanter for endorsing the attribution on the basis of photographs.

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