Bireno and Olimpia by Ferdinando Tacca
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Bireno and Olimpia

Ferdinando Tacca · 1640–50

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Daniel Katz, acquired in London 1969 [according to 2002 telephone conversation between Katz and Jane Neet]. Plato Investments, Ltd., Zurich, by 1993; sold to the Art Institute through Daniel Katz, Ltd., London, 1993.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Giambologna, 1529–1608: Sculptor to the Medici, 19 August - 10 September 1978, traveled to London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 5 October – 16 November 1978, and Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2 December 1978 – 28 January, 1979, cat. 73.
  • Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Il Seicento Fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, 21 December 1986 – 4 May, 1987, cat. 4.37.
  • Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, 6 June – 29 September 2002, traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, 9 November 2002 – 2 February, 2003, and Detroit Institute of Arts, 16 March – 8 June, 2003, cat. 87.

Literature

Published references

  • Charles Avery, Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture (Mt. Kisco, New York, 1987), p. 230, fig. 264.
  • Anthea Brook, "La scultura fiorentina tra il Giambologna e il Foggini" in Il Seicento Fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exhib. cat., Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1986, vol. 2, p. 74.
  • Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (2001), pp. 5,12, fig. 2.
  • Bruce Boucher, “Bireno and Olimpia,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 60-61, ill.

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