Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343-1356/1366). <em>Christ Blessing</em>, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange, 2000.27 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.27_PS1.jpg)

Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343-1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange, 2000.27 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.27_PS1.jpg)

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Christ Blessing

Nardo di Cione

European Art

Previously known only through a nineteenth-century engraving, this panel was discovered at a country auction in Dorset, England, in March 2000. Scholars then identified the panel as the missing pinnacle of Nardo di Cione’s altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints Zenobius, John the Baptist, Reparata, and John the Evangelist, on view nearby. As the pinnacle to the larger panel, Christ Blessing would have been located directly above Madonna and Child with Saints.

ARTIST Nardo di Cione, Italian, Florentine, active 1343-1356/1366

MEDIUM Tempera and tooled gold on panel

Place Made: Italy

DATES mid 14th century

DIMENSIONS 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm) mount (in dedicated vitrine. Display dims): 30 × 22 × 6 3/4 in. (76.2 × 55.9 × 17.1 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS European Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 2000.27

CREDIT LINE Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange

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CAPTION Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343-1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange, 2000.27 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.27_PS1.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 2000.27_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006

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