Ask the Scholar
Page 1 of 1
I can add historical knowledge about this page.
Page image
Document source description
Enthroned as Queen of Heaven, Mary holds her son, who turns with an affectionate gesture to embrace Saint Joseph while angels play music. Mary's husband is pictured as an old man who needs to use glasses to read. The inscription on the scroll below tells us that Mary was both mother and virgin, and Joseph's old age testifies to the Christian miracle of the virgin birth. The painting was probably the central part of a polyptych (an altarpiece consisting of several panels).Rather than looking to ancient art as a model as so many of his Italian contemporaries did, Defendente Ferrari considered northern European painting with its close attention to naturalistic detail to be a proper source for engaging religious art.
Page data
- Page
- 1
- Source index
- 0
- Type
- photo
- Media ID
- 2419fe875d00b0b4
- Size
- unknown
Document data
- ID
- 18355
- Core
- obj
- Type
- drawing
DTO data
{
"id": "18355",
"sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.711",
"contentType": "drawing",
"stage": "normalized",
"title": "The Holy Family with Angels",
"description": "Enthroned as Queen of Heaven, Mary holds her son, who turns with an affectionate gesture to embrace Saint Joseph while angels play music. Mary's husband is pictured as an old man who needs to use glasses to read. The inscription on the scroll below tells us that Mary was both mother and virgin, and Joseph's old age testifies to the Christian miracle of the virgin birth. The painting was probably the central part of a polyptych (an altarpiece consisting of several panels).Rather than looking to ancient art as a model as so many of his Italian contemporaries did, Defendente Ferrari considered northern European painting with its close attention to naturalistic detail to be a proper source for engaging religious art.",
"provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 90, as manner of Filippo Lippi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
"date": "ca. 1520 (Renaissance)",
"citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.711",
"rightsUri": "CC0",
"language": "en",
"genreSpecific": [
"Painting & Drawing",
"oil paintings (visual works)",
"panel paintings"
],
"iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"imageCount": 1,
"pageCount": 1,
"source": "import",
"dimensions": [
{
"units": "cm",
"width": 147,
"height": 72,
"depth": 1
}
],
"dimensionsRaw": "Painted surface H: 57 7/8 x W: 28 3/8 x D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (147 x 72 x 1 cm)"
}
Context sent to Scholar
Document identity
{
"localId": "18355",
"label": "The Holy Family with Angels",
"core": "obj",
"dtoType": "drawing",
"citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.711"
}
Document source metadata
{
"id": "18355",
"sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.711",
"contentType": "drawing",
"stage": "normalized",
"title": "The Holy Family with Angels",
"description": "Enthroned as Queen of Heaven, Mary holds her son, who turns with an affectionate gesture to embrace Saint Joseph while angels play music. Mary's husband is pictured as an old man who needs to use glasses to read. The inscription on the scroll below tells us that Mary was both mother and virgin, and Joseph's old age testifies to the Christian miracle of the virgin birth. The painting was probably the central part of a polyptych (an altarpiece consisting of several panels).Rather than looking to ancient art as a model as so many of his Italian contemporaries did, Defendente Ferrari considered northern European painting with its close attention to naturalistic detail to be a proper source for engaging religious art.",
"provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 90, as manner of Filippo Lippi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
"date": "ca. 1520 (Renaissance)",
"citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.711",
"rightsUri": "CC0",
"language": "en",
"genreSpecific": [
"Painting & Drawing",
"oil paintings (visual works)",
"panel paintings"
],
"iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"imageCount": 1,
"pageCount": 1,
"source": "import",
"dimensions": [
{
"units": "cm",
"width": 147,
"height": 72,
"depth": 1
}
],
"dimensionsRaw": "Painted surface H: 57 7/8 x W: 28 3/8 x D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (147 x 72 x 1 cm)"
}
Document source extras
{
"inscriptions": [
"[Transcription] In scroll at bottom: PARTVS ET INTEGRITAS DISCORDES TEMPORE LVNGO",
"VIRGINIS IN GREMIO FOEDERA PACIS HABENT; [Translation] Childbirth and chastity, long time discordant, have a bond of peace in the lap of the Virgin"
],
"med": "oil and gold leaf on wood panel",
"creator_ids": [
"4994"
],
"collection_ids": [
"REN"
],
"exhibition_ids": []
}
Page context
{
"seq": 1,
"pageIndex": 0,
"type": "photo",
"url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_37.711_Fnt_SL.jpg",
"mediaId": "2419fe875d00b0b4"
}