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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1921.13
People
Giovanni di Paolo, Italian (c. 1398/99 - 1482)
Title
Saint Catherine of Siena
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1462
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231676

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
107.95 x 53.34 cm (42 1/2 x 21 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen
Accession Year
1921
Object Number
1921.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 15, p. 23, pl. VI
  • John Pope-Hennessy, Giovanni di Paolo, 1403-1483, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, 1938), p. 132
  • Duveen Brothers, Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America: A Catalogue Raisonné with Three Hundred Illustrations of Paintings by the Great Masters, which have passed through the House of Duveen, William Bradford Press (New York, 1941), cat. no. 38, repr.
  • H. W. van Os, Giovanni di Paolo's Pizzicaiuolo Altarpiece, The Art Bulletin (New York, September 1971), vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 289-203, pp. 289, 295, 301, repr. p. 301 as fig. 22
  • 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. 89
  • Andrea Kirsh, "Worlds Below: An Investigation of Infrared Reflectography" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, April 1973), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 167, p. 149, repr.
  • Keith Christiansen, Laurence Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke, Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1988), p. 220
  • 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), p.38, color plate; pp. 109, 308, repr. b/w cat. no. 587
  • Professor Carole Levin, Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT, 2000), repr. p. 33; detail repr. on cover
  • Diega Giunta, "The Iconography of Catherine of Siena's Stigmata", A Companion to Catherine of Siena, Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition (Boston, MA, 2012), vol. 32, pp. 259-294, pp. vii, 263, repr. on book cover and on p. 264 as fig. 1
  • Melinda A. Stanley, Deborah C. Beidel, and Cynthia M. Bulik, Abnormal Psychology, Pearson Publishing (Boston, 2012), repr. as ill. on pg. 242
  • Deborah C. Beidel, Cynthia M. Bulik, and Melinda A. Stanley, Abnormal Psychology, Pearson Publishing (Boston, 2014), repr. as ill. on p. 236

Exhibition History

  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 02/19/2016

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