Saint Augustine's Vision of Saints Jerome and John the Baptist

1. Placidi altarpiece, Chapel of Saint Jerome, Church of San Domenico, Siena, from 1476 until the dismemberment of the altarpiece sometime between 1784 and 1803 [Trimpi 1983 identified this painting, The Dream of Saint Jerome (1933.1018), and The Crucifixion, now in a private collection, as from the predella of the altarpiece on the basis of Mons. Francesco Bossio, Visita apostolica (1575), Siena, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS. 21, fol. 678r–678v and an August 23, 1803 inventory of pictures from San Domenico in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Archivio di Stato Biccherna 1089, fol. 459r–460v]. Possibly removed to Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, by 1803 [according to Trimpi 1983, who cites the inventory referenced above]. Adelbert Wellington, third Earl Brownlow (d. 1921), Ashridge Park, Berkhamsted, by 1904 [according to the London 1904 exhibition catalogue], sold as a pair with 1933.1018, Christie’s London, May 4, 1923, no. 26 (ill.), as Benvenuto di Giovanni, to Colnaghi for £850 [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue at Christie’s, London]; sold by Colnaghi to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1925 [according to Colnaghi’s invoice, Ryerson papers, Art Institute archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1925; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures of the School of Siena and Examples of the Minor Arts of That City, 1904, no. 43.
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420–1500, December 20, 1988 – March 19, 1989, no. 49c.
• Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, The “Gates of Paradise”: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece, April 28-July 15, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, July 28-October 13, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008 [Chicago Only].
• London, National Gallery, Renaissance Siena: Art for a City, October 24, 2007 – January 13, 2008, no. 37.
• Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Il Sogno nel Rinascimento, May 21 – September 15, 2013, no. 34; traveled to Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2013–2014 .

• Bernard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2d ed. (New York and London, 1909), p. 194.
• Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, Matteo da Siena und seine Zeit (Strasbourg, 1910), pp. 117–18, 139.
• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, T. Borenius ed., 2d ed., vol. 5 (New York, 1914), p. 184 n. 2.
• Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University: Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), p. 128.
• Rose Mary Fischkin, “Two Paintings by Matteo di Giovanni,” Art Institute Bulletin 20 (1926), pp. 30–32, fig. 2.
• Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” (unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago), pp. 41–43.
• Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan, 1931), pl. CCXXVII.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 350.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 181, no. 1687.25.
• William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, (unpub. MS, 1932, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago), n. p.
• M. Gengaro, “Matteo di Giovanni,” La Diana 9 (1934), pp. 166–68.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 301.

The Dream of Saint Jerome

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Two Putti

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Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

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The Adventures of Ulysses

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Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness

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Ecce Agnus Dei

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The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

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Saint John the Baptist in Prison Visited by Two Disciples

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