The Coronation of the Virgin
The original, as its museum records it
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Nothing in Scripture stages this crowning; the panel proves heaven by ear. Psalm 150 gives praise its timbrel and its high-sounding cymbals, and two angels hold exactly those; the other two an Early Renaissance lute and a lira da braccio, a bowed fiddle that no psalm names. Paradise is scored for what a Florentine of the 1470s could hear.
It may be the Incoronata Ghirlandaio was paid for at Pisa in 1478–79. Someone cut the panel down, taking the legs from both Saints John. The record begins at a London sale in 1937, under another painter's name.
Sources: Denver Art Museum object page, accession 1961.163 · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection database, Coronation of the Virgin (Denver Art Museum 1961.163) · Cavallini to Veronese: A Catalogue of Italian Paintings before 1500, s.v. Ghirlandaio, Coronation of the Virgin (Denver) · Psalm 150:4-5, Douay-Rheims
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.