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Assisi, Palazzo del Podesta. Dan Fellows Platt, by 1924 [1]; 1937 gift to Princeton University Art Museum [2].


[1] Lent to museum in 1924

[2] April 1936 letter in file indicating that the fresco had already been given (some time previously, by implication). Mentions three other pieces (thought inferior by Platt) bought by the National Gallery (London) for $7,500

 

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Dillian Gordon, The Italian paintings before 1400, (London: The National Gallery Company, 2011).

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Dillian Gordon, The Italian paintings before 1400, (London: The National Gallery Company, 2011).

, fig. 1; p. 490 (illus.)","date":2011,"id":867,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/706852986"},{"boilertext":"

Charles Holmes, \"Three early italian frescoes\", in Festschrift für Dr. Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstage, (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1927).

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Charles Holmes, \"Three early italian frescoes\", in Festschrift für Dr. Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstage, (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1927).

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