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Chasuble with Medallion Depicting John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto · 1575/1625

Provenance

Ownership history

Blumka Gallery, New York, by Mar. 30, 1970 [incoming receipt RX7934, Apr. 2, 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments, Nov. 15, 1975–Jan. 18, 1976.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection, July 27–Oct. 9, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Sept. 6, 1988-Apr. l 10, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, May 2-July 2, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection, Sept. 11, 1996–Jan. 12, 1997.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Sept. 1, 1999- Jan. 25, 2000.

Literature

Isle Hecht, "An Embroidery after a Fresco by Andrea del Sarto," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago vol. LXIX, no. 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1975): 14-17 (ill.).
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), cat. 71, 176-177 (ill.)
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 44-45, 50, 144 (ill.).

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