The Battle of Pharsalus and the Death of Pompey by Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
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The Battle of Pharsalus and the Death of Pompey

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni · c. 1455

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Richard Warren Sears II (d. 1949), Chicago, by 1923 [Sears lent the painting and 1974.393 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. 554–55.
  • Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni (Oxford, 1974), p. 75, under no. 57.
  • 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, figs. 13 and 15.
  • Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 15–17, ill.
  • 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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