
Madonna of Humility
Bolognese · 1375–1400
Provenance
Ownership history
- Count Ambroz-Migazzy, Sarvar, Hungary [according to Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings, 1938]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York [according to receipt dated November 21, 1928, in curatorial files]; Sold by Silberman to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928, [according to receipt dated November 21, 1928, in curatorial files]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, The Union League Club, 1928 (no cat.).
- The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time, 1930, no. 33, as Jacobello di Bonomo.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 86, as Jacobello di Bonomo (?).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39 (no cat.).
Literature
Published references
- Art News 27, 10 (December 8, 1928), p. 1, ill.
- “Famous Art Works Exhibited in Clubhouse,” Art in the Union League Club of Chicago: Union League Club Bulletin (January 1929), p. 7, ill.
- Pantheon 3 (1929), pp. 102, ill, 104.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Two Trecento Venetian Panels,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 24, 7 (1930), pp. 88–89, cover ill.
- The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time (1930), no. 33.
- The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Anniversary Bulletin (Autumn – Winter 1930), cover ill.
- Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan, 1931), pl. CIV.
- William Suida, review of Pitture italiane in America by L. Venturi, in Belvedere 10 (1931), p. 191, pl. 104.
- Millard Meiss, “The Madonna of Humility,” Art Bulletin 18 (1936), p. 441, n. 23; reprinted in Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (Princeton, 1951), p. 137 n. 20.
- “The Christmas Story in Art,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 32, 7 (1938), p. 105.
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), pp. viii, 6, no. 2, pl. II.
- Luigi Coletti, I primitivi: I padani, vol. 3 (Novara, 1947), pp. XXXIV–XXXVI, LXXIII, pl. 66.
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