Panel from the polyptych for San Michele in Poggio, Siena: Christ Blessing

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Panel from the polyptych for San Michele in Poggio, Siena: Christ Blessing

Artist Luca di Tommè Italian, active in Siena circa 1350–1389

Datecirca 1358

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

Dimensions22 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (58.1 x 33.7 cm)
Frame: 27 x 17 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (68.6 x 43.8 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.5

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ProvenanceA convent in Siena; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1950; on loan to the National Gallery of Art, 1951; on loan to the University of Arizona, 1951-57; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

Published ReferencesJ. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 3, L. Douglas, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1908), 87 (for discussion of St. Ann Altarpiece).

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1951), cat. no. 123.

Twenty-five Paintings from the Collection of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (exhibition catalogue) (Tucson: University of Arizona, 1951), cat. no. 1.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 26, illus. (b-w) 27.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian schools XIII-XV Century (London: The Phaidon Press, 1966), 59, 60, illus. fig. 151]

Bernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and Northern Italian Schools, Vol. 1 (London: 1968), 225.

Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Painting in the North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 113.

Cristina de Benedictis, La pittura senese 1330-1370 (Florence, 1979), 48, 67 no. 80, 87-88.

Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth Century Painter (Carbondale and Edvardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), 26, 35, 153.

Pia Palladino, Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350: Luca di Tommè and Niccolò di Buonaccorso (exhibition catalogue) (San Diego: Timken Museum of Art, 1997), 43, illus. (color) pl. 8.

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 638, illus. (b-w) 639.
Exhibition HistorySan Antonio, TX, Witte Memorial Museum, "An Exhibition of Italian Paintings," June 10, 1934-July 1, 1934.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," cat. no. 123.

Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona, "Twenty-five Paintings from the Collection of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation," 1951, cat. no. 1.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, 1994, handout no. 3.

San Diego, CA, Timken Museum of Art, "Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350: Luca di Tommè and Niccolò di Buonaccorso," December 11, 1997-April 12, 1998, cat. p. 43, illus. (color) pl. 8.

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