Rinaldo and the Magus of Ascalon

1. Possibly one of four scenes from Tasso made for the 'gabinetto degli specchi' of the Palazzo Corner a San Polo, Venice [according to inventories and other documents discussed by Romanelli 1998]. Count Giovanni Serbelloni, Venice in 1838; by descent, until possibly 1886 [Molmenti 1911 and Knox 1978]. Giulio Cartier, Genoa by 1908 [Malaquzzi Valeri 1908]; Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, in 1912 [Ojetti 1912]; James Deering (d. 1925), Vizcaya, from 1913 [information sheet in curatorial file]; bequeathed, 1925.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, June 1 – November 1, 1933, no. 159.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, June 1 – November 1, 1934, no. 337.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by the two Tiepolos, February 4 – March 6, 1938, no. 9.
• Udine, Villa Manin di Passariano, Mostra del Tiepolo, June 27 – October 31, 1971, no. 61.
• Venice, Ca' Rezzonico, Giambattista Tiepolo, September 5-December 15, 1996, cat. 17d; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 24 – April 27, 1997.

• Pompeo Molmenti, G. B. Tiepolo: La sua Vita e le sue Opere (Milan, 1909), pp. 140-141, 145-147, 156, ill. (French trans. H. L. de Perera, Tiepolo, La vie et l’œuvre du peintre (1911), pp. 188-189, 308, nos. 186-189, pls. 186-88).
• Ugo Ojetti, “Le quattro tele del Tiepolo trafugate”, Emporium 36 (July 1912): pp. 64-69, ill.
• Camille Mauclair, “Exposition de Quelques Chefs-d’Oeuvre de G. B. Tiepolo,” in Dix Chefs-d’œuvre de G. B. Tiepolo exposés a la Galeries Ch. Sedelmeyer (Paris, 1912-3), pp. 5-34.
• Helen Parker, ed., Arno Art Studies: A Course in Picture Appreciation, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1930), pp. 208, 211.
• Michael Levey, “Review of Antonio Morassi: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B. Tiepolo,” The Art Bulletin 45 (1963), p. 294.
• Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), pp. 204-206.
• Mercedes Precerutti Garberi, affreschi settecenteschi delle ville Venete (Milan, 1968), p. 360.
• George Knox, Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1975), p. 80.
• National Gallery of Canada, Tiepolo: etchings by the Tiepolos (Ottawa, 1976), pp. 66-67.
• John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), pp. 255-256.
• Claudia Lazzaro, Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints (Stanford, 1980), pp. 28-29.
• James N. Wood, Teri J. Edelstein, and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide, first ed. (Chicago, 1993), p. 139.

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

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The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

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The Triumph of Marius

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The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

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The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

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The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

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The Battle of Vercellae

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Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken

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