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The Samuel E. Dress Foundation
221 West 57th St.
New York 19, N.Y.

February 1, 1954

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#8143/4 ORCAGNA, Andrea

"Orcangna and the Black Death of 1346", Part II,
Art Quarterly, Vol. XII, Spring 1949, p.127)....
originally in Pisa and formed an altarpiece of which the center was possibly the Madonna statuette in the Campo Santo."

Collection: Prince of Liechtenstein,
Chapel of Fort Liechtenstein, Modeling.

Bibliography: Fëhrer dureh die Fërstlieh
Liechtenstein'sehe Gasildegalerie
in Sien, by A, Kronfeld, Vienna,
1951, Gallery II, p. XVIII.

W.H. Valentiner, "Orcagna and the Black Death of 1346", Part II,
Arts Quarterly, Vol. XIII, Spring 1359,
p.127

THE PAIN, PRICE..........$55,000.

#8145/6 BONINO DA CAMPIONE (15357-1397)

"PRODERTIA"

Marble. Height: 26-1/2". Ca. 1357.

The concept of Prudence takes the form of a three-faced figure. The front face is that of a young girl looking down into a bowl which she holds with her left hand. In her right at the point of her, where the folds of her robe gracefully gather, she elapse a book. Of the other two heads, one is also that of a girl but with an uplifted

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