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April 17, 2007
Holly Flora Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting Exh. cat. New York: The Frick Collection, 2006. 52 pp.; 42 color ills.; 1 b/w ills. $15.95 (001912114339)

Exhibition schedule: Frick Collection, New York, October 3–December 31, 2006

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Cenni di Pepo called Cimabue. The Flagellation of Christ (ca. 1280). Tempera on poplar panel. 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (24.7 x 20 cm). The Frick Collection, New York.

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Over the last few years, our knowledge of Tuscan painting in the late duecento has expanded considerably. In Siena, the recent unveiling of frescoes in the crypt of the cathedral has challenged our assumptions about late medieval Italian art. Previously unknown panel paintings have come to light as well, among them a dazzling small panel of the Enthroned Virgin and Child, recently acquired from a private collection by the National Gallery in London, and attributed...