The Temptation of Saint Jerome

1. Miss M. M. Webber until 1963; sold Sotheby’s, London, July 3, 1963, no. 89 (ill.) to Patch for £3800 [according to letter of October 10, 2000, from Camilla Harris, Sotheby’s, who also identified Patch as Weitzner]; Julius Weitzner, London; purchased by the Art Institute through Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection Fund, 1964

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Art Gallery, The Age of Vasari, 1970, no. P18.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.

• John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, p. 254.
• C. Monbeig-Goguel, "Giorgio Vasari et son temps," Revue de l'art no. 14 (1971), p. 108.
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp. 209, 409, 571.
• Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 3d ed., vol. 10, 1976, p. 404.
• Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, dall' XI al XX secolo, vol. 11, Turin, 1976, p. 258.
• A.M. Bracciante, Giorgio Vasari, exh. cat., Arezzo, Casa Vasari, 1981, sec. 4, p. 80, under no. 11.
• D. Clark, "Vasari's Temptation of St. Jerome Paintings: Artifacts of his Camaldoli Crisis," Studies in Iconography 10 (1984-86), pp. 102, 106, 108, 110, 112, 115, n. 25, 117, n. 48, fig. 2 (mislabeled).
• C.M. Brown, "'Verzeichnis etlicher Antiquitäten, so von Herrn Kardinal von Trient überschickt worden': Paintings and Antiquities from the Roman Collection of Bishop Gerolamo Garimberto Offered to Duke Albrecht Vth of Bavaria in 1576, " Xenia 10 (1985), pp. 60, 64, 69-70 n. 18.
• L. Corti, Vasari: Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1989, p. 38, under no. 21.
• Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1993, pp. 262-267 (ill.).
• Umberto Baldini, Giorgio Vasari, Florence, 1994, p. 162.

Study for Allegory of Two Quartieri of Florence

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Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

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Study for the Allegory of Birth

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Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, with God the Father Above

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Study for Ceres

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Study for a Ceiling Decoration, with Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well (recto); Study for a Ceiling Decoration (verso)

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Female Head in Profile to Left

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Study for the Death of Saint Peter Martyr

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