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Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Baccio Baldini · 1465/80
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, “Prints 1400–1800: A Loan Exhibition from Museums and Private Collections,” also traveled to The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, November 1956–March 1957, plate 31, cat. 75 (ill.).
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Prints of the Italian Renaissance,” June 23–October 7, 1973; also traveled to San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 10, 1973–January 13, 1974, cat. and handbook.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life," April 30-July 10, 2011, p. 55, fig. 45 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Jean Duchesne, Voyage d'un iconophile (Paris: Heideloff et Campé, 1834), p. 209.
- Henri Delaborde, La gravure en Italie avant Marc-Antoine (1452-1505) (Paris and London: Librairie de l'art, 1883), p. 60.
- Sidney Colvin, A Florentine Picture Chronicle by Maso Finiguerra (London: B. Quaritch, 1898), pp. 38-39 (ill. 74).
- Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of the Celebrated Collections of Old Master Engravings . . . 19th Century Watercolour Drawings . . . 18th Century Mezzotint Portraits / date of sale: November 7, 1945 (London: Sotheby & Co., 1945), lot no 129 (ill.).
- Carl O. Schniewind, “A Great Print Collection Comes to the Art Institute,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, vol XLII, no 1 (Jan. 1948), p. 6 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, et al. Prints 1400-1800: A Loan Exhibition from Museums and Private Collections (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), no. 75 (ill. 31).
- E.P. Richardson, “Bertoldo and Verracchio: Two Fifteenth Century Florentine Bronzes,” The Art Quarterly, vol. XXII, no. 3 (1959), p. 205, (ill. 8).
- A. Hyatt Mayor, Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), fig. 89.
- Jay A. Levenson, Prints of the Italian Renaissance: A Handbook of the Exhibition, (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1973), no. 56.
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