The Head of Saint John the Baptist Brought before Herod

1. Edourd Aynard, Lyons, by 1907 [see Perkins 1907]; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 1–4, 1913 no. 51, to Kleinberger, Paris, as agent for Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1914 [an entry for June 18, 1914, in Ryerson’s notebook reads: “Bot [sic] of Kleinberter, Paris, 6 panels by Giovanni di Paolo (purchased by him at Aynard sale for 160 000 fr + 10%);” Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1914; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, Italian Primitives, 1917, no. 59.
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance, May 7–September 9, 1923, no. 17.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, January–March, 1930, no. 932.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 85e.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 29e.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Children’s Museum, Explanatory Exhibition of the Panels Showing Scenes from the Life of St. John the Baptist by Giovanni di Paolo, 1939 (no cat.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993, 1993, no cat.

• F. Mason Perkins, “Dipinti sconosciuti della scuola senese,” Rassegna d’arte senese 3, 1 (1907), pp. 82–83, ill.
• E. Jacobsen, Das Quattrocento in Siena: Studien in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie (Strasbourg, 1908), p. 50.
• Bernard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2d ed. (New York and London, 1909), p. 177.
• Paul Schubring, “Opere Sconosciute di Giovanni di Paolo e del Vecchietta,” Rassegna d’arte 12, 10 (1912), pp. 163–64.
• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, 2d ed., vol. 5, ed. T. Borenius (New York, 1914), p. 178 n.
• F. Mason Perkins, “Dipinti senesi sconosciuti o inediti,” Rassegna d’arte 14 (1914), p. 163 n. 2.
• Paul Schubring, Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance (Leipzig, 1915), vol. 1, pp. 324–25, nos. 445–50, vol. 3, pl. CIV.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Architecture (Chicago, 1917), p. 165.
• Giacomo De Nicola, “The Masterpiece of Giovanni di Paolo,” Burlington Magazine 33 (1918), pp. 45–54, pl. I.
• Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University: Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), p. 121.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 62.
• Curt H. Weigelt, in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, vol. 14 (Leipzig, 1921), p. 135.

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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Salome Asking Herod for the Head of Saint John the Baptist

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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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Virgin and Child

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