Processional Cross with Saint Mary Magdalene and a Blessed Hermit by Lorenzo Monaco
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Processional Cross with Saint Mary Magdalene and a Blessed Hermit

Lorenzo Monaco · 1392–95

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Achillito Chiesa, Milan; sold American Art Association, New York, pt. 4, November 22–23, 1927, no. 110, as Pietro Lorenzetti, for $1800 [see American Art Sales 1927]. Sold by Kleinberger, New York, to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1927 [according to Registrar’s records]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1927; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Muskegon, Michigan, Hackley Art Gallery, Italian Paintings in the Loan Collection from Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, M. Knoedler and Company, E. and A. Silberman, 1932, no. 1, as Gherardo Starnina.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 97, as Gherardo Starnina.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, no. 2.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450, November 17, 1994-February 26, 1995, cat. 28.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.
  • Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, Lorenzo Monaco: A Bridge from Giotto's Heritage to the Renaissance, May 9- September 24, 2006, cat. 11.

Literature

Published references

  • American Art Sales 3, 1 (December, 1927), p. 40.
  • D. C. Rich, “A Crucifixion by Bernardo Daddi,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 22 (1928), pp. 74–75, ill.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago, 1922), p. 183.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 165.
  • William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.
  • Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 142.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 224–25.
  • Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 516.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London, 1963), p. 53.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 24, ill.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 11, 292, 571.
  • Miklós Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370–1400 (Florence, 1975), p. 340, fig. 457.

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