Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee

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Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee

Artist Master of the Bologna Polyptychs Italian, active in Bologna,1320s

Datecirca 1320

MediumTempera and gold leaf on poplar panel

Dimensions20 7/8 x 22 5/8 in. (53 x 57.5 cm)
Frame: 24 7/8 x 26 3/8 in. (63.2 x 67 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.12

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ProvenanceGozzadini, Bologna; Dan Fellows Platt Collection, Englewood, NJ; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1939; Kress Foundation Gift to NCMA, 1961.

Published ReferencesF. Mason Perkins, "Dipinti Italiani nella Raccolta Platt, parte 2," Rassegnad'Arte 11, no. 9 (September 1911), 145 (see curatorial file for GL.60.17.11). L. Frati, L'Arte 12 (1914), 421f. Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Vol. 4 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1924), 421-22 (as Pseudo-Jacopo Avanzi). Evelyn Sandburg Vavala, "Some Bolognese Paintings Outside Bologna and a Trecento Humorist," Art In America 20, no. 1 (December 1931), 20 (as Pseudo-Jacopo Avanzi). Francesco Arcangeli, "Un vitale e un Jacopo da Bologna," Proporzioni 2 (1948), 67-74 (see curatorial file for GL.60.17.11). Mostra dell a Pittura Bolognese dell' 300 (exhibition catalogue) (Bologna: Pinacoteca, 1950), cat. nos. 44-47. Roberto Longhi, "La Mostra del Trecento Bolognese," Paragone 1, no. 5 (May 1950), 13-15 (as Jacopino di Francesco). William E. Suida, "Rassegna," La Critica d'Arte no. 33 (May 1950), 52-58, illus. fig. 56. The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 40, illus. (b-w) 41, fig. B (as Jacopino di Francesco). Paul Wescher, Die Kress-Schenkung für Raleigh," Pantheon 21, no. 1 (January-February 1963), 9, illus. 10, fig. 3. Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 71, illus. fig. 189. Daniele Benati, "Pittura del Trecento in Emilia Romagna," in La pittura in Italia. Il duecento et il Trecento, 2nd ed., E. Castelnuovo, ed. (Milan: 1986). Carlo Volpe, La Pittura nell' Emilia e nella Romagna. Raccolta di Scritti sul Trecento e Quattrocento (Modena, 1993), illus. fig. 51. "Renovated European Galleries," in North Carolina Museum of Art supplement to the Durham Herald-Sun (October 2002), mentioned 3. 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 664, illus. (b-w) 666. Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, Trinita Kennedy, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Nashville, TN: Frist Art Museum, 2021), cat. no. 39, illus. (color).

Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Hunter College, Roosevelt House, 1944. Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1951–1952. Bologna, Italy, Pinacoteca, "Mostra dell a Pittura Bolognese dell' 300," May-October 1950, cat. nos. 44-47 (see curatorial file for GL.60.17.11). 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. 2. Nashville, TN, Frist Art Museum, “Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City,” November 5, 2021–January 30, 2022, cat. 39, illus. (color). Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

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