Master of the Golden Gate
The Meeting of Anna and Joachim at the Golden Gate

ArtistItalian (Florentine), active second half of the 14th century
CultureItalian (Florentine)
Titles
  • The Meeting of Anna and Joachim at the Golden Gate
Datec. 1370–1390
PlaceFlorence, Italy
MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel
DimensionsPanel: 11 7/8 × 13 11/16 in. (30.2 × 34.8 cm)
Frame: 15 1/16 × 16 13/16 in. (38.3 × 42.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
Object number44.561
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
202 Willis Education Gallery
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ProvenanceCollection Rudolph Chillingworth, Lucerne; Kaufmann, Munich; [Edward Hutton, London, 1926]; acquired by Percy S. Straus, New York, in 1927; bequeathed to MFAH, November, 1944.

Exhibition HistoryMint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1954.

"An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, April 9–June 5, 1965.

"Paintings from American Museums, 1976 U.S.S.R. Exchange," State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russia, February 11–March 24, 1976; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, April 8–May 20, 1976; State Museum of Ukrainian Art, Kiev, Ukraine, June 3–July 15, 1976; Belorussian State Museum of Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus, July 30–September 10, 1976.

"Chefs d'oeuvre de musees des Etats-Unis: de Giorgione a Picasso," Musée Marmottan, Paris, 1976.

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Passion for Perfection: The Straus Collection of Renaissance Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–June 17, 2018.
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