Altarpiece with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
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Exhibition History
Left-hand side:
1. The Annunciation
2. The Adoration of the Magi
3. The Ascension of Christ
Center:
1. The Death of the Virgin
2. The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels
Right-hand side:
1. The Adoration of the Shepherds
2. The Resurrection of Christ
3. Pentecost
The nine small paintings along the bottom form the predella. Flanking the Entombment of Christ in the center are from left to right: Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Margaret, Saint Peter, the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Paul, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint John the Baptist.
Parish church of Puertomigalvo, Spain [1];
Possibly purchased from the parish church by the dealer José Costa, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, before 1932 [2];
Ròmulo Bosch i Catarineu (1890-1936), Barcelona, Spain, by 1932;
Purchased from Bosch, through José Gudiol and Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] According to Judith Berg Sobré, University of Texas at San Antonio, in a letter to Eliot Rowlands, Assistant Curator of European Art, March 2, 1990 and Carl B. Strehlke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, in a letter to Ian Kennedy, Senior Curator of European Art, December 7, 2006, NAMA curatorial files.
[2] According to art historian Walter W. S. Cook, in a letter to Paul Gardner, Director, August 14, 1949, NAMA curatorial files.
“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Special Number,” Art News 32, no. 10 (December 9, 1933): 29.
Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting: The Hispano-Flemish Style in Northwestern Spain, vol. 4, pt. 2, The Hispano-Flemish Style in North-Western Spain (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933), 576-78.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 32, 34.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 89.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 86, 89.
Donald D. Jones, “Work of Art at Nelson Gallery is Unique.” The Kansas City Times (December 25, 1962): unpaginated, (repro.).
Marilyn Stokstad, “Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century” Apollo 47 (December 1972): 31.
Margareth Anne Boyer, “Music in a Fifteenth-Century Altarpiece: A Key to the Interpretation of the Work” (unpublished manuscript, [after 1972]), NAMA curatorial files.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 94, 105, 262.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 139.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 33, 43.
Francesc Ruiz I Quesada, “Del Obispo Sapera a los linajes Pomar y Nadal. Gonçal Peris y los retablos de Puertomingalvo,” Retrotablum, no. 5 (September 2012): 2, 4, 39, 41-49, (repro.).
Núria Rivero Matas, “El Ilegat de Julio Muñoz Ramonet: una collecció en discussió,” Agents del Mercat Artístic i Colleccionistes 23 (2017), 143, 147.
