Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, Numerous followers hold Christ after the deposition from the cross.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.2021; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu.
The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, The infant Christ Child sits on the Virgin Mary's lap and puts on a ring on the kneeling Saint Catherine's finger.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.2907; Public Notes: This image is a copy of an original by Lorenzo Lotto. The information provided in this listing refers to the original, as no information pertaining to the copy may be found at this time.
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Cardinal Alonso Borja (Borgia), It is "the large central panel of a retable, representing the standing Virgin holding the Child and worshipped by an aged masculine donor depicted in the diminutive scale and pinched portraiture of the international style and clad in a fur-lined mantle. Above the Madonna a pointed arch separated the summit of the panel into a compartment containing at the centre [sic.] a medallion of the head of David. The framing uprights are fortunately preserved, embellished in the lower subdivisions with four musical angels, in the two upper subdivisions with a pair of adoring angels, and in their pinnacles with the busts of Hosea (at the left) and Ezekiel (at the right).." (Post, 580-581) The donor, who is kneeling in the bottom right at the Virgin's feet is believed to be Alfonso Borgia, as proposed by "Carl Strehlke (correspondence with the MFA, August 31, 2008). Borgia was born in Xativa, and in 1455 would become Pope Calixtus III. According to the dealer Arthur Byne, this painting was made for the collegiate church of Xativa." (MFA online as listed in sources below, accessed on 01/17/14), c.1400
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.SPAN.0044; Public Notes: Caption under photograph reads: "Recently purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
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