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Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Saint John the Baptist Meets Two Pharisees
Photo: Eduardo Calderon

Saint John the Baptist Meets Two Pharisees

Datesecond quarter 14th century
Maker Master of the Life of St. John the Baptist Italian, Active 2nd quarter 14th century
Maker Riminese School
Object number61.160
ProvenanceGiulio Sterbini (d. 1911), Rome, as Jacopo di Paolo da Bologna (published Adolfo Venturi, "La Galerie Sterbini in Roma," 1906, p. 53, under no. 12); [Sangiorgi, Rome]; [Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome-Florence]; purchased by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York, June 1, 1936 (exhibited National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951-1952); Seattle Art Museum, since 1952, accessioned 1961
Photo CreditPhoto: Eduardo Calderon
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Wash., Seattle Art Museum, Italian Art: Samuel H. Kress Collection. 1952. Text by William Suida and Sherman Lee. Cat. no. 2, pp. 4, 11. Seattle, Wash., Seattle Art Museum, Neri di Bicci and the Practice of Renaissance Devotional Art, Mar. 25, 2004-Dec. 31, 2005. No cat. no. Published ReferencesSuida, William and Richard Fuller. European Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1954; p. 14, reproduced p. 15. Ellis, Richard. The Four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles. New York: Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1959; p. 156, reproduced no. 1. Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection XIII- XV Century. London, England: Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1966; p. 69, fig. 185. Christiansen, Keith. “Fourteenth Century Italian Art.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 40, no. 1 (1982): p. 44, 45, reproduced. Pope-Hennessy, John. The Robert Lehman Collection: I: Italian Paintings. Princeton, N.J.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 1987; p. 289, reproduced p. 288. Ishikawa, Chiyo. The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1997; fig. 27, pp. 44-45. Duston, Allen. Angels from the Vatican: The Invisible Made Visible. Alexandria, Va.: Art Services International, 1998; p. 230.
Credit LineSamuel H. Kress Collection
Dimensions11 1/8 in. x 7 1/4 in.
MediumWood transferred to Masonite
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