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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
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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1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim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

Verification Level

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