1947.25: Saint Catherine of Siena Intercedes with Christ to Release the Dying Sister Palmerina from Her Pact with the Devil
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1947.25
- People
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Girolamo di Benvenuto di Giovanni del Guasta, Italian (Siena 1470 - 1524 Siena)
- Title
- Saint Catherine of Siena Intercedes with Christ to Release the Dying Sister Palmerina from Her Pact with the Devil
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1505
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229488
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
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32.4 x 54.9 cm (12 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
frame: 44.5 x 68 cm (17 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Frank Lee Drummond Rust
- Accession Year
- 1947
- Object Number
- 1947.25
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 92
- Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
- Catherine de Sienne, exh. cat., Grande Chapelle du Palais des Papes (Avignon, France, 1992), cat. no. 90, p. 255; repr. in color, p. 155
- Maria Assunta Ceppari Ridolfi, Maghi, Streghe e Alchimisti a Siena e nel suo territorio (1458-1571), Edizioni il Leccio (Monteriggioni, Italy, 1999), detail repr. in b/w as tav. XII, p. 134
- Sarah Carr-Gomm, The Secret Language of Art, Duncan Baird Publishers (London, England, 2001), pp. 164-165, repr.
- Michel Laclotte and Esther Moench, Peinture Italienne: Musee du Petit Palais, Avignon, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2005), repr. pp. 114 and 238
- Angelica Daneo, The Kress Collection at the Denver Art Museum, Denver Art Museum (Denver, 2011), pp. 127, 130, repr. p. 130 as fig. 42
- Diana Bullen Presciutti, Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 141-142, repr. p. 141 as fig. 67
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