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  • Record Number: 2610
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Cannon , Joanna
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  • Title: The Stoclet "Man of Sorrows": A Thirteenth-century Italian Diptych Reunited [The author argues that the small panel formed a devotional diptych with a painting of the Virgin and Child; the author points out that the two panels engage each other and draw the viewer into the drama].
  • Source URL: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 141, 1151 (February 1999): 107-112. Link Info target = '_blank'>Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 141, 1151 (February 1999): 107-112. Link Info
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- Painting Iconography Jesus Christ- Passion in Art Mary, Virgin, Saint and Child in Art Mary, Virgin, Saint as the Virgin Hodegetria, Named for the Famous Icon of the Virgin Believed to Have Been Painted by Saint Luke
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13
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  • Illustrations: Eleven illustrations. Figure One Rear view of the panel of Figure Two. (London, National Gallery). Figure Two Virgin and Child, Umbrian, circa 1250-1260, panel (London, National Gallery). Figure Three Man of Sorrows, Umbrian, circa 1250-1260, panel (London, National Gallery). Figure Four Rear view of the panel of Figure Three (London, National Gallery). Figure Five Recto and Verso of a double-sided icon with the Virgin Hodegetria and the Man of Sorrows, Byzantine, second half of the twelfth century, panel (Kastoria, Byzantine Museum). Figure Six Infra-red photograph of Figure Two showing incisions. Figure Seven Detail of the St. Francis panel by Maestro di S. Francesco showing the head of the left angel and of St. Francis (Assisi, S. Maria degli Angeli). Figure Eight Upper terminal of the crucifix of Abbess Benedicta, 1255-1260, panel (Assisi, S. Chiara). Figures Nine and Ten Giunta Pisano, Detail of Christ and the Virgin from the Crucifix, panel (Assisi, S. Maria degli Angeli). Figure Eleven Maestro di S. Francesco, Crucifix, from S. Francesco al Prato, Perugia, 1272, panel (Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria).
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  • Author's Affiliation: Courtauld Institute of Art
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00076287
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