Madonna of Humility

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Although Battista di Biagio Sanguigni is known primarily as a manuscript illuminator, recant research has identified him as the Master of 1419, the artist who painted an altarpiece in 1419 for the chapel of the prominent Giugni family for their parish church in the Mugello. This work and other devotional panels, such as the Ackland Madonna of Humility, reveal his probable origins in Lorenzo Monaco's workshop. In this image, a studious reiteration of a Madonna by Lorenzo Monaco's shop, the Virgin appears to be sitting or kneeling on the ground, and thus it is referred to as the Madonna of Humility.

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About the Artist

Battista di Biagio Sanguigni

1393 – present

Italian illuminator and painter. He entered the Florentine confraternity of San Niccolò al Carmine in 1415 and was named among its rectors in 1418. In 1417 he stood guarantor for the admission of Guido di Pietro, the future Fra Angelico, to the confraternity. Sanguigni did act as a tutor to Zanobi Strozzi, and from at least 1435 he lived in Fiesole, in a house owned by Strozzi. The Master of 1419 (active 1419-30 in Florence) who constructed a corpus around the Virgin and Child with Angels (Museum of Art, Cleveland), the central panel, dated 1419, of a dismembered was recognised as Battista di Biagio Sanguigni.

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