Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: The Beheading of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

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Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: The Beheading of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Artist Master of Saint James at the Battle of Clavijo Italian, active in Bologna 1310s and 1320s

Datecirca 1325–1330

MediumTempera, gold leaf, and mosaic gold on panel

Dimensions24 3/8 x 26 5/8 in. (61.9 x 67.6 cm)
Frame: 30 1/8 x 28 1/4 in. (76.5 x 71.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.15

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ProvenanceCount Giovanni Gozzadini, 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," Rassegna d'Arte 11, no. 9 (September 1911), 145 (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 Vavalà, "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 (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, 42, illus. (b-w) 43, fig. E (as Jacopino di Francesco).

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.

Cesare Gnudi, Pittura bolognese del '300 (Bologna, 1978), 122-3 (as 'Jacopino di Francesco').

Daniele Benati, "Pittura del Trecento in Emilia Romagna," in La pittura in Italia. Il Ducento e il Trecento, E. Castelnuovo, ed. (Milan: 1986), 210, 216 (see curatorial file for GL.60.17.13).

"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) 669.

Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, Trinita Kennedy, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Nashville, TN: Frist Art Museum, 2021), cat. no. 43, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, F. Kleinberger Galleries, Inc., "Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives in Aid of the American War Relief," 1917, cat. by Siren and Brockwell, cat. no. [74?], illus.

New York, NY, Hunter College, Roosevelt House, 1944.

Bologna, Italy, Pinacoteca, Mostra dell a Pittura Bolognese dell' 300. May-October 1950, cat. nos. 44-47 (curatorial file for GL.60.17.11).

Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1951 - 1952.

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. 43, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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