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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.68
People
Andrea Vanni, Italian (c. 1332 - c. 1414)
Title
Saint Mark
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
second half 14th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228437

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
66.8 x 38 x 1.3 cm (26 5/16 x 14 15/16 x 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Monistero di S. Eugenio, Siena. Griccioli Collection, Siena. [Paul Buttenweister Gallery, Berlin]. Sold [ through Park-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 25, 1944]; to [Seligman Rey & Co, New York]. [Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York], sold; to Dr. Lillian Malcove (Mrs. L. Ormos), 1950, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Lillian Malcove
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1951), p. 23 (n. 40); listed as "whereabouts unknown"
  • Jerrold Ziff, "The Reconstruction of an Altarpiece by Andrea Vanni", The Art Bulletin (June 1957), Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 138-142, pp. 138-142, repr. as fig. 2
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places: Central and North Italian Schools, Phaidon (London, 1968), Vol. I, p. 441; Vol. II, repr. as plate 394
  • 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. 208
  • 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)
  • Mojmír S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Maxdorf Publishers (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1998), p. 106, under CC12; p. 231 under 38A

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