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The Resurrection

Cecco del Caravaggio · c. 1619-20

Provenance

Ownership history

Commissioned by Piero Guicciardini, Rome, 1619 [according to mandates relating to payments for the decoration of the family chapel in Santa Felicita in Florence, published in Corti 1989 p. 130]; rejected upon completion and sold in Rome [this and the following according to the Oct. 18, 1620 entry of chapel expense account, cited in published in Corti 1989 p. 137, “…et sono per essermi accollato la terza tavola già fatta per mano di Francesco del Caravaggio et dàtola via, non havendo hauto sodisfatione d’essa.” See also Papi 2001.]. Cardinal Scipione Borghese, Rome, about 1620 [Borghese inventory, published in Corradini 1998]. Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome [this and the following according to the Brummer Gallery inventory cards, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; sold to the Brummer Gallery, New York, Aug. 19, 1931 as by Horatio Gentileschi for $2,400; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 29, 1934 as by Horatio Gentileschi.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, Caravaggio and His Followers, Oct. 27, 1971-Jan. 2, 1972.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 17- Sep. 11, 2011, Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome, fig. 48; Fort Worth, Kimball Art Museum, Oct. 9, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome, Sep. 8-Dec. 31, 2023, no cat.

Literature

Published references

Mahonri Sharp Young, "Letter from U.S.A.: The Ruin of Painting,” Apollo 95, no. 117 (1972):61.
Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean-Pierre Cuzin, I Caravaggeschi Francesi, exh. cat. (Rome: De Luca, 1973), 24-25.
Maurizio Marini, Io Michelangelo da Caravaggio (Rome: Studio B di Bestetti e Bozzi, 1974), 476.
Luisa Vertova, ed., Caravaggism in Europe vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Torino: Umberto Allemandi, 1989), plates 448-49.
Gino Corti, “Il ‘Registro de’ mandate’ dell’ambasciatore granducale Pietro Guicciardini e la committenza artistica fiorentina a Roma nel secondo decennio del Seicento,” in Paragone 473, no. 16 (1989): 130-32.
Gianni Papi, “Pedro Nuñez del Valle e Cecco del Caravaggio (e un apostilla per Francesco Buoneri)," Arte Cristiana 79, no. 742 (1991): 39, 46-48, 49 (ill.)
Anna Ottani Cavina, "Un Dipinto di Cecco del Caravaggio," in Studi di Storia dell’Arte in Onore di Mina Gregori (Milan: Silvana, 1994), 159 fig. 2, 160.
Giovanna Capitelli and Caterina Volpi, Caravaggio e il Caravaggismo (Rome: Bagatto Libri, 1995), 191-94.
Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art vol. 5 (New York: Grove, 1996), 702.
Richard Ward, “Those Who Came Before: Caravaggio and His Principal Italian Followers,” in Sinners and Saints: Darkness and Light; Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, exh. cat. (Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 30 fig. 19, n.61-63.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio e i suoi primi seguaci, exh. cat. (Ente capitale europea della cultura "Salonicco '97", 1997), 203.
Sandro Corradini, “Un antico inventario della quadreria del Cardinale Borghese,” inBernini Scultore: La Nascita del Barocco in Casa Borghese, exh. cat., eds. Anna Colvina and Sebastian Schütze (Rome: Edizioni de Luca, 1998), 499, 452.

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