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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.25
People
Master of the Walters Stories of Helen, Italian (1440 - c. 1470)
Title
A Roman Hero
Other Titles
Alternate Title: A Classical Military Hero
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228497

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
sight: 97.16 x 81.6 cm (38 1/4 x 32 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Collection of Baron and Baroness Raoul Kuffner de Diozegh, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (London, November 18, 1948), repr. p. 21
  • 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. 138
  • Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, "A Rediscovered Series of Uomini Famosi from Quattrocento Venice", The Art Bulletin (June 1976), pp. 185-195, repr. fig. 1, p. 185
  • Federico Zeri, Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, ed. Ursula E. McCracken, The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, MD, 1976), p. 237
  • Mauro Lucco, ed., La Pittura nel Veneto. Il Quattrocento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1989 - 1996), vol. 2, p. 400
  • 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. 119, repr. fig. 610

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