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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Reunions: Bringing Early Italian Paintings Back Together
The National Gallery: 12 November 2005 - 29 January 2006
Bernardo Daddi, 'The Coronation of the Virgin', about 1340. © The National Gallery, London.
In recent years the National Gallery has considerably enriched its collection of early Italian painting through a series of extraordinary acquisitions of 13th and 14th-century panels. These include the Umbrian Diptych of 'The Virgin and Child' with 'The Man of Sorrows', Cimabue's 'Virgin and Child with Angels', and the newly-acquired 'Coronation of the Virgin' by Bernardo Daddi, all of which have made the National Gallery one of the most comprehensive collections of early Italian painting in the United Kingdom.