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Exhibition HistoryWashington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Dec. 10, 1961-Feb. 4, 1962. Cat. no. 99.
Sarasota, Fl. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, Dec. 7- Apr. 14, 2012. Text by Virginia Brilliant and Fredrick Ilchman. Cat. no. 70, p. 236.
Published ReferencesBlanc, Charles. Histoire des peintres de toutes les ecoles—ecole venitienne. Paris, France: Librairie Renouard, 1883-1884; p. 22.
Caliari, Pietro. Paolo Veronese, Sua Vita e Sue Opere. Rome, Italy: Forzani EC, 1888; p. 221.
Remy, Pierre. Catalogue des Tableaux et Dessins Precieux des Maitres Celebres des Trois Ecoles, … et autres objets du Cabinet de Feu M. Randon de Boisset, Receveur General des Finances. Auction cat. Sale Feb. 27, 1777. Paris, France: Chez Musier, 1777; p. 5, no. 8.
Borenius, Tancred. Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Vol. I. London, England: William Heinemann, 1913; no. 175, p. 198 (attributed to Paul Veronese (School of) without any history).
Ridolfi, Carlo. Le meraviglie dell’arte ovvero le vite degli illustri pittori veneti e dello stato. Berlin, Germany: Grote, 1914; pp. 336-337.
Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook. London, England: 1932; p. 72, no. 175 (as “P. Veronese (School of) Venus and Mars, formerly called Venus and Adonis. Possibly by Carlo Cagliari”).
Fiocco, Guiseppe. Paolo Veronese. Rome, Italy: Casa Editrice d’Arte, Valori Plastici, 1954; p. 121.
Suida, William and Richard Fuller. European Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Seattle, Wash.: Seattle Art Museum, 1954; pp. 52-55, reproduced pp. 53, 55.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, Vol. I. New York: Phaidon Press, 1957; p. 136.
Marini, Remigio and Sylvie Béguin. Tout l’oeuvre peint de Veronese. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1968/1970; no. 200.
Christensen, Erwin Ottomar. A Guide to Art Museums in the U.S. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968; no. 456.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century. London, England: Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973; pp. 41-42, reproduced fig. 75.
Pignatti, Terisio. Veronese: Volume Primo. Venice, Italy: Alfieri Edizioni d’Arte, 1976; no. 249.
Badt, Kurt. Paolo Veronese. Köln, Germany: Lorenz Dittman/DuMont Buchverlag, 1981; no. 205.
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Veronese. Milan, Italy: Arnoldo Modadori Editore, 1984; pp. 129-130.
Pignatti, Terisio and Pedrocco, Filippo. Veronese: Tomo Primo. Milan, Italy: Electa, 1995; p. 317, 380-381, no. 267, reproduced p. 380.
Ishikawa, Chiyo. The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Wash.: Seattle Art Museum, 1997; fig. 35, pp. 56-59.
Dorman, Nicholas and Katie Patton. “Materials, Technique, and the Master’s Hand: The Seattle Venus and Adonis.” In Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. Exh. Cat. Edited by Virginia Brilliant with Frederick llchman. Sarasota, Fl.: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, in Association with Scala Publishers, 2012; pp. 235-43.
Patton, Katie. “Veronese and his Workshop: The Case of the Seattle Venus and Adonis.” Master’s thesis, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 2012.
Látka, Peter. “’All Adonises Must Die’: Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and the Episodic Imagery.” In Shakespeare and the Visual Arts ed. Michele Marrapodi. London, England: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2017; p. 66, reproduced fig. 3.3.