The ''Maestà of Santa Maria dei Servi'' is a tempera and gold on panel painting by

Cimabue Giovanni Cimabue ( , ; – 1302), Translated with an introduction and notes by J.C. and P Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1991, pp. 7–14. . also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian p ...

or his workshop, dating to c.1280-1285, between his Louvre Maestà (c.1280) on the one hand and the Assisi frescoes (1288–1292) and the

Santa Trinita Maestà The ''Santa Trinita Maestà'' (Italian: ''Maestà di Santa Trinita'') is a panel painting by the Italian medieval artist Cimabue, dating to -1292. Originally painted for the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, where it remained until 1471, it is ...

(c.1290-1300) on the other. It is named after the church of

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, where it hangs. It was later repainted and has a fake inscription as well as several candle burns. Enrico Podio restored it in 1936-1937 and Ottorino Nonfarmale in 1977. As with many other paintings it reproduces Islamic textiles, in particular the thin strip of fabric covering the upper edge of the throne, with a pseudo-Arabic inscription whose "characters" are very similar to those on a Syrian ceramic of the same date now in the

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.Contadini, Anna (1999) ''Artistic Contacts: Present Scholarship and Future Tasks'', Contadini, A. and Burnett, C., Islam and the Italian Renaissance. Warburg Institute Colloquia. London: The Warburg Institute (London), pp. 4-5. Until 1885 it was considered as being by an anonymous artist. Thode, Strzygowsi, Zimmermann, Aubert, Suida, Weigelt, Offner, Chiappelli, Supino, Venturi,

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, Sandberg Vavalà, Lavagnino, Becherucci, Volpe, Venturoli, Tartuferi and Bellosi all argued that it was a wholly autograph work by Cimabue, though Sirén and Coletti were more doubtful.

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, Ragghianti, Samek, Ludovici, Battisti, Bologna and Marques accept Cimabue's authorship but argued for heavy participation by his workshop, whilst Nicholson, Sinibaldi, Savini and Lazarev argued it was a wholly studio work. In 1949 Edward Garrison attributed it to a "Bolognese master influenced by Cimabue and Frey, Wackernagel, Van Marle, Mather, D'Ancona, Sindona and Soulier exclude it from the list of Cimabue's works.

References

Bibliography

* Eugenio Battisti, ''Cimabue'', Milano, Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1963. * Enio Sindona, ''Cimabue e il momento figurativo pregiottesco'', Rizzoli Editore, Milano, 1975. * Luciano Bellosi, ''Cimabue'', Milano, Federico Motta Editore, 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:Maesta of Santa Maria dei Servi Paintings in Bologna Paintings of the Madonna and Child Paintings by Cimabue 1280s paintings