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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1947.25
People
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
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
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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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