Keywords: Neri di Bicci - Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Saints - Walters 37700.jpg For more information on this altarpiece please see Zeri catalogue number 53 pp 86-87 ca 1450 Renaissance tempera gold panel Panel cm 137 155 3 ; Framed cm 160 66 179 71 10 16 ; Pained surface cm 135 5 154 accession number 37 700 19710 Savoy Family date and mode of acquisition unknown seal with the shielf of the Savoy family on the reverse of the panel Domenico Goretti date and mode of acquisition unknown reverse is inscribed Collezione Domenico Goretti Alessandro Casati date and mode of acquisition unknown On reverse in ink Alessandro Casati and sticker No 3 Casati Marquess Filippo Marignoli Rome and Spoleto until 1898 mode of acquisition unknown Marquess Francesco Marignoli 1898 mode of acquisition unknown Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome 1899 mode of acquisition unknown 1900 catalogue supplement no 7 as Allegretto Nuzi Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription On the scroll held by John the Baptist ECCE AGNIVS DEI; Translation On the scroll held by John the Baptist Behold the Lamb of God; Transcription Along the lower edge SCS BERNARDINVS SCS IOHES BAPTISTA SCS BERNARDVS APPOLONIA MARTIR; Transcription In book held by St Bernard BONUM EST / NOS HIC ESSE / IN RELIGIONE / HOMO VIVIT PU / RIUS CADIT RA / RIUS RESURGIT / VELOCIUS INCEDIT / CAUTIUS QUIESCIT / SECURIUS / PURGATUR / CITIUS / MORITUR / CONFIDENTIUS / ET PREMIATUR / COPIOS / IUS B dus; Translation In book held by St Bernard quotation from the Gospels Matthew 17 4 Mark 9 5 Luke 9 33 It is good for us to be here In the religious life one lives with greater purity falls with more rarity rises up with more velocity walks with more prudence rests with more security is purified with more rapidity dies with more confidence and is rewarded with more abundance Bernard ; Seal On reverse with shield of Savoy family; Seal On reverse Italia Littorio; Transcription Collezione Domenico Goretti; Sticker No 3 Casati; Transcription In ink Alessandro Casati God's Minstrel St Francis of Assisi The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1982 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Neri di Bicci Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Madonna and Child |