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| Keywords: Sandro Botticelli - St John the Baptist - Walters 37427.jpg This panel is a fragment from the right side of a large altarpiece The complete painting must have represented the Madonna and Child enthroned with one saint on either side According to a scheme common in late 15th-century Florentine painting a marble wall enriched with cornices and polychrome incrustations formed a niche around the throne of the Virgin Mary with blue sky above This depiction of St John and another fragment which was part of the same altarpiece Madonna and Child National Museum La Valetta Malta display a close stylistic connection to Botticelli's San Barbara altarpiece in the Uffizi in Florenze The altarpiece from which the Walters' fragment came is therefore attributed by Zeri to Botticelli's workshop Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 59 95-96 ca 1485 Renaissance tempera wood Painted surface cm 63 4 39 4 1 2 accession number 37 427 29519 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 96 as Botticelli Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Saints by Botticelli Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
