Bernardo Daddi, 'The Coronation of the Virgin', about 1340.
© The National Gallery, London.

Reunions: Bringing Early Italian Paintings Back Together

12 November 2005 - 29 January 2006
Room 1 Admission free

Generously supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

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.

To celebrate these acquisitions this small, in-focus exhibition aimed to reunite pictures that were originally part of the same altarpiece - or even the same panel - and that had been divided for centuries.

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