The Assassination and Funeral of Julius Caesar by Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
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The Assassination and Funeral of Julius Caesar

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni · 1455/60

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Richard Warren Sears II (d. 1949), Chicago, by 1923 [Sears lent the painting and 1974.394 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1923, see correspondence in curatorial file]; at Sears’s death to his widow, C. Ruby Sears (d. 1974); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1974.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol.10 (The Hague, 1928), pp. 554-56, ill.
  • Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni (Oxford, 1974), pp. 47, 75, no. 57, fig. 214.
  • Ellen Callmann, “Roman Virtue and Renaissance Marriage,” The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas 6, 8/9 (1991/1992), pp. 30–32, 35–36, fig. 14.
  • Christopher Lloyd, Italian Painting before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 13-15, ill.
  • Graham Hughes, Renaissance Cassoni. Masterpieces of Early Italian Art: Painted Marriage Chests 1400–1550 (Alfriston and London, 1997), p. 158.
  • Ellen Callmann, “Jacopo del Sellaio, the Orpheus Myth, and Painting for the Private Citizen,” Folia Historiae Artium, n.s. 4 (1998), p. 149.
  • Caroline Campbell, Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests, exh. cat., The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009, pp. 37, 98, under no. 8.

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