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Preferred term

Consignment of Abandoned Children and Orphans to Mothers  

Entry terms

  • I CAPITANI DELLA MISERICORDIA CONSEGNANO I BAMBINI ABBANDONATI ALLE MADRI
  • LA CONSEGNA DEGLI ORFANI AI GENITORI ADOTTIVA

Note

  • Specific artist: Gerini, Niccolò di Pietro, act.1368, d.1415
  • Specific date: 1386
  • Specific location: Firenze (ITA), Museo del Bigallo
  • Specific medium: fresco
  • Specific note: loc. in the Stanza del Consiglio; Originally for facade of the residence of the Misericordia society, (NOT for the oratory) beneath the Loggia del Bigallo. Lost and abandoned

Scope note

  • children were exposed for 3 days before being consigned to foster-mothers.

Notation

  • 282344
  • 282345

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-TNW62HRM-F

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