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| Keywords: Alberto Sotio - The Mourning Virgin Mary - Walters 371155.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Alberto Sotio This beautiful panel one of the oldest Italian paintings in America is a fragment from the left side or apron of a large painted crucifix With one hand touching her cheek in a tender expression of sorrow the Virgin points to her left towards to the now-missing central panel with her other hand Her gesture was originally directed towards Christ's wound the source of her grief The rippling drapery and elegant contours of the Virgin's body are derived from Byzantine icons Created before painting on wooden panels was widely practiced this is a rare example of an early Italian painting executed on parchment prepared animal skin generally used for manuscripts applied to a wooden panel This fact together with the artist's remarkable control of line and expressive gesture suggest that he also worked as a manuscript illuminator For more information on this piece please see Zeri catalogue number 1 pp 3-4 ca 1180 1190 Medieval tempera paint gold on parchment mounted on wood panel cm 89 29 5 8 ; Painted surface cm 84 5 24 5 ; Original panel max cm 85 8 26 4 3 accession number 37 1155 28077 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1897 1881 catalogue no 5 1897 catalogue no 12 as Margaritone d'Arezzo Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription SANCTA M; Transcription Inscribed on the rectangular strip near the Virgin's feet SCA MARIA An Exhibition of the Treasures of The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Pace Wildenstein Gallery New York; Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1967 place of origin Spoleto Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Alberto Sotio Life of Mary in icons 12th-century paintings of Virgin Mary Paintings from Italy in the United States Paintings of Lamentation of Christ Spoleto Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
