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Crucifix
Master of the Bigallo Crucifix · c. 1240
Provenance
Ownership history
- Johann Nepomuk, Count Wilczek (died 1922), Burg Kreuzenstein, near Vienna [according to a letter from E. Silberman Galleries to Robert B. Harshe of May 13, 1936, in curatorial file]. E. and A. Silberman, Vienna and New York, by 1936; sold to the Art Institute, 1936.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Recent Accessions, 1936-37, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, 1946, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Religious Art, 1954, pp. 12-13, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago New Light on Old Masters: Early Italian Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, May 29 - July 31, 1993, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," September 25, 2004–January 2, 2005, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- "Fifteen New Acquisitions at Chicago," The Art News 35, 13 (1936), pp. 9, 25, ill. p. 8.
- "Thirteenth Century Crucifix for Chicago," The Art Digest 11, 7 (1937) p. 12 (ill.).
- E. Sandberg-Vavalà, "A Crucifix at Chicago," The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 33 (1939), pp. 34-40, figs. 1, 3, 5, detail on cover.
- R.Oertel, : Italienische Malerei des Mittelalters bis zum Trecento,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 9 (1940), p. 121.
- "The Face of Christ: A Portfolio of His Image Through the Ages," Fortune 33 (1946), p. 135 (color ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948, p. 25.
- E. B. Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting: An Illustrated Index (Florence, 1949), pp. 12, 181, 185, no. 467 (ill.).
- Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 37, (Leipzig, 1950), p. 48.
- F.A. Sweet, “La Pittura italiana all’Art Institute di Chicago,” Le vie del mundo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp.689–90 (ill).
- C. L. Ragghianti, Pittura del dugento a Firenze (Florence, 1955), p. 12, fig. 28.
- E. B. Garrison, Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting, vol. 2, nos. 3-4 (Florence, 1956), "Addenda ad Indicem IV," p.210.
- Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 2d ed., vol. 5, 1960, p. 711.
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