The Martyrdom of St. Alexander

ArtistAfter Lorenzo Lotto Italian, b. circa 1480, Venice; d. 1556, Loreto

DateProbably after 1560

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsDiameter: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Frame: 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (34.3 x 34.3 x 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.71

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ProvenanceThe church of SS. Stefano e Domenico, Bergamo, by 1516 (commissioned in May 1513 by Alessandro Colleoni Martinengo di Malpaga); transferred to the monastery of Basella, 1560; transferred to the church of San Bernardino, Borgo San Leonardo, 1564; transferred to the church of San Bartolomeo, Bergamo, 1600; separated from the main altarpiece in 1749; private collection, Milan; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1950; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesBernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1957), 104.

Bernard Berenson, Lorenzo Lotto (London: The Phaidon Press, 1956), 38, 42-43, illus. pl. 94.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960) 86, illus. (b-w) 87, fig. B.

"Cronache-Raleigh: Un Dipinto di Lotto al North Carolina Museum of Art," Emporium 135, no. 806 (February 1962), 87-88.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October- December, 1961," Art Quarterly (Spring, 1962), 84.

P. Bianconi, All the Paintings of Lorenzo Lotto, Part 1, Vol. 16. Complete Library of World Art, transl. by Paul Cloacicchi (London: Oldbourne Press, 1963), 43, illus. pl. 43.

Pantheon 21 (May-June 1963), illus. 185.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3, (Winter/Spring, 1964), mentioned 3, listed 57, illus. (b-w) 39, fig. 4.

"Public Information," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1, (1966/67?), noted 20.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV - XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: 1968), 160, illus. fig. 389 (K1765B).

Giordana Mariana Canova and Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'opera Completa del Lotto, Vol. 79. Classici dell Árte (Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1974), 95, illus. 94, fig. 48.

Flavio Caroli, Lorenzo Lotto e la Nascita della Psicologia Moderna (Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980), illus. 257 (label on p. 256 is incorrect).

"NCMA Receives Additional Kress Gift," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 5, nos. 4 and 5 (January-February 1962), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

Francesco Rossi, et al., Lorenzo Lotto a Bergamo (Bergamo: Accademia Carrara di Bergamo, 1998), CD-ROM.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, handout no. 9.
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