Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

1. Possibly part of a suite of decorations belonging to Francesco di Bonacorso Pitti, Florence, from 1494 [based on arms in a related panel in National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; see Lloyd 1993, p. 20]. Luigi Grassi, Florence, by 1924 [bill of sale dated March 18, 1924 in curatorial file]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1924; on loan to the Art Institute, 1924; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Old and New Masters of Religious Art, 1931, no. 78.
• The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 8.
• Art Instititute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Early Italian Paintings in the Art Institute, 1993, no cat.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 159, no. 2027.
• Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1931, vol. 12, p. 441 n. 2, vol. 13, p. 122, fig. 76.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 6,
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 5.
• William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932]. Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.
• Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, “Giovannino Battista: A Study in Renaissance Relgious Symbolism,” Art Bulletin 37 (1955), pp. 88 n. 23, 98 n. 81.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 18.
• Gerhard Eimer, “Bartolommeo de Giovanni and the Urbino Bible in The Vatican Library,” Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 35 (1966), p. 64, fig. 14.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Grands Musées 2, Paris [1968], pp. 24 (ill.), 67.
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 16, 416, 571.
• Everrett Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo, New York and London, 1976, pp. 132–33, no. 18, p. 156.
• Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago; A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 17-21, ill.

Saint Benedict Presenting his Rule to Benedictine and Cistercian Monks in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Choirbook

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The Adventures of Ulysses

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The Dream of Saint Jerome

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

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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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Two Putti

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