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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Circle of Agnolo Bronzino · c. 1530
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sestieri, Rome; sold to Colnaghi, London, 1962 [according to letter of January 29, 1991 from Jeremy Howard of Colnaghi in curatorial file]; purchased from Colnaghi by the Art Institute through the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Endowment, 1963.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, Oct. 17–Dec. 14, 1986, cat. 6.
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1962–63 (1963): 15
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), 254 (ill.).
- Kurt W. Forster, “A Madonna by Maso da San Friano,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 7 (1972): 34–51, figs. 1, 4, 6, 13.
- Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian paintings in American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), 168, 336, 571.
- Cecil Gould, National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Schools (London, 1975), 87.
- Valentino Pace, “Maso da San Friano,” Bollettino d’Arte 61 (1976), 91.
- Anna Matteloi, “Una S. Famiglia di Maso da San Friano,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 29 (1985), 394.
- Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), 202–5, ill.
- Phillippe Costamagna, Pontormo (Milan: Electa, 1994), 11, 301, no. A66.1.
- Frank Zuccari, “Conservations of Italian Paintings in Chicago” in Early Italian Paintings: Approaches to Conservation. Proceedings of a Symposium at the Yale University Art Gallery, April 2002, ed. by Patricia Sherwin Garland (New Haven and London, 2003), 254–5, figs. 18.4 and 5.
- Janet Cox-Rearick, “A Bronzino Discovery,” Apollo (April 2004): 13 fig. 3
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