1923.42: Scene from "The Odyssey": Calypso and Hermes

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1923.42

People

Apollonio de Giovanni di Tommaso, Italian (c. 1415 - 1465)
Marco del Buono, Italian (1402 - 1489)

Title

Scene from "The Odyssey": Calypso and Hermes

Other Titles

Former Title: Scene from "The Odyssey": Calypso and Hermes [Apollonio de Giovanni and Marco del Buono (1402-1489)]

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1440

Culture

Italian, Tuscan, Florentine

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231739

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

28.5 x 15.7 cm (11 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernard d'Hendecourt

Accession Year

1923

Object Number

1923.42

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary

Fragment of a cassone panel.

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. 12
• David Kolch, "Reconstruction System for Panel Painting Supports: A Review and Evaluation of Treatments in the Fogg Museum Laboratory, 1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
• 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), pp. 97, 303, repr. b/w cat. no. 566

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