The Annunciation

1. Commissioned by Hans Fugger from Alessandro Vittoria for the Fugger Family chapel, Schloss Kirchheim, Augsburg, 1580. Fugger family collection, Schloss Kirchheim, Augsburg, until demolition of the castle in the nineteenth century [according to Trent 1999 exh. cat.]. Fugger family collection, Augsburg, until 1908. German art market, 1930 [according to Berlin 1995/96 exh. cat.; and Trent 1999 exh. cat.]. Dr. Preston P. Satterwhite, New York, by 1932 [see sources cited above; Planiscig 1932; and two letters from Leo Planiscig to Preston Satterwhite, 16 December 1932 and 2 March 1933, in curatorial file]. French & Co., New York, by 1942; sold to the Art Institute, 1942.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Northhampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Renaissance Bronzes in American Collections, Apr. 9,–May 3, 1964, cat. 17.
• Augsburg, Ausstellung im Rathaus, Welt im Umbruch, Augsburg zwischen Renaissance und Barock, June 28–Sep. 28, 1980, cat. 577.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Genius of Venice, 1500–1600, Nov. 25, 1983–Mar. 11, 1984, cat. S42.
• Berlin, Alten Museum, Von allen seiten schön, Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, Oct. 31, 1995–Jan. 28, 1996, cat. 86.
• Trent, Italy, Castello del Buonconsiglio, La bellissima maniera, Alessandro Vittoria e la scultura del Cinquecento, June 25–Sep. 26, 1999, cat. 84.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Paolo Veronese (1525–1588), May 27–Sep. 7, 2025, cat. 50.

• Georg Lill, Hans Fugger (1531–1598) und die Kunst (Leipzig, 1908), pp. 32, 153–55.
• Leo Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance (Vienna, 1921), p. 501.
• Leo Planiscig, "Alessandro Vittorias Verkündigungsrelief für Hans Fugger," Jahrbuche der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 60 (1932), pp. 155–56, pl. XVL.
• Leo Planiscig, "Alessandro Vittoria e la Pala Fugger," Rivista di Venezia 12,1 (1933).
• Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell’arte Italiana X,III (Milan, 1937), pp. 70, 116, 120, fig. 89.
• Helen Comstock, "Bronze Relief by Alessandro Vittoria," The Connoisseur 111,488 (1943), pp. 133–34.
• Meyeric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, "A Masterpiece of Italian Renaissance Sculpture," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 1 (1943), pp. 4–7.
• Francesco Cessi, Alessandro Vittoria, medaglista (1525–1608) (Trent, 1960), pp. 50–55, pl. 31.
• Hans Huth, "Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA," Miscellanea bibliothecae hertzianae, edited by Leo Bruhns, Franz Graf, Wolff Metternich, and Ludwig Schudt (Munich, 1961), p. 518.
• Manfred Leithe-Jasper, "Alessandro Vittoria," Mitteliungen der Gesellschaft für veregleichende kunstforschung in Wien: Auszüge aus kunsthistorischen Dissertationen Österreichischer Hochschulen seit 1956 16/17 (1963-1965), p. 32.
• Michael Baxandall, "A Masterpiece by Hubert Gerhard," Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin 1,2 (1965), p. 8.
• Francesco Cessi, "Note sulla genesi iconografico–stilistica della pala bronzea di Alessandro Vittoria per Giovanni Fugger," Studi trenti di scienze storiche (1965), pp. 348–53.

One of the Set of the Four Evangelists: John

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One of the Set of the Four Evangelists: Matthew

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One of the Set of the Four Evangelists: Luke

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One of the Set of the Four Evangelists: Mark

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Francesco de' Medici

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Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose

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Crucifix

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Portrait of a Musician

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