Predella panel (C) from the high altarpiece of the Abbey of Santa Maria Assunta, Monteveglio: The Dormition of the Virgin

Artist Lorenzo Costa Italian, c.1460–d Mantua, 5 Mar. 1535

Datecirca 1490

MediumTempera on panel

Dimensions10 1/8 x 27 3/4 in. (25.7 x 70.5 cm)
Frame: 15 x 32 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (38.1 x 83.2 x 5.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.38

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ProvenanceCommissioned (together with main altarpiece depicting the Assumption of the Virgin) ca. 1488-90 by the Canons Regular of the Lateran of San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna for the abbey church of Santa Maria Assunta, Monteveglio (near Bologna); separated from main altarpiece at an unrecorded date; B. W. Currier collection, England by 1894-95 [exh. 1894-95]; sold Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 14, 1926, lot 54 (as Luigi Vivarini, bought by Dean [a York dealer?]); Briganti collection, Rome; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1937; on loan to National Gallery of Art 1939-ca. 1959; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesF. Malaguzzi-Valeri, Rassegna d'Arte 9 (1909), 94.

Roberto Longhi, Ampliamenti nell'officina ferrarese (Firenze: G.G. Sansoni, Editore, 1940), 15 -16, illus. pls. XIX-XXI (as Costa, identified as predella to the altarpiece from S. M..delle Rondini, _____, now at Berlin).

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 395.

Edoardo Arslan, "La Assunta dell Costa a Montevegilo e la sua predella," Rivista d'Arte 39 (January 1959), 49 - 53, illus. figs. 1-4.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art , 1960), 78, illus. (b-w) 79, fig. C.

Ranieri Varese, Lorenzo Costa, "Silvana" Editoriale d'Arte (Milano, [n.d.]).

M. Salmi, Pittura e miniatura a Ferrara nel Primo Rinascimento (Milan, 1961), 52, note 70.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV - XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 65, illus. fig. 154.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV - XVI II Century, Vol. 3 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1973), 390.

Peri Lee Roberts, "Lorenzo Costa's Monteveglio Altarpiece: A Case Study in the Representation of the Virgin's Death and Assumption in the Late Fifteenth Century," Arte Cristiana 781 85 (Luglio-Agosto 1997), 264-268, illus. 267.

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 616, illus. (b-w) 617, 618-19 .
Exhibition HistoryLondon, The New Gallery, "Exhibition of Venetian Art," 1894-5, no. 6 (as Luigi Vivarini).

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1939-____.

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 4-April 24, 1994, handout no. 6.

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