1921.13: Saint Catherine of Siena

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

Permissions

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Publication History

• Helen Comstock, "Paintings by Giovanni di Paolo in America", The International Studio, vol. 87, pp. 47-55, p. 54
• 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(thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, April 1973), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim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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• Straus.6500

  Artist of original: Giovanni di Paolo

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