Saint Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church

Artist Bernardo Strozzi Italian, 1581/82–1644

Datecirca 1625

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions46 1/2 x 62 in. (118.1 x 157.5 cm)
Frame: 56 3/4 x 72 1/4 in. (144.1 x 183.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.168

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On view

ProvenanceDuke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, by 1854; David M. Koetser, New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesG. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, III[II?] (1854), 131.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 199, illus. (b-w).

Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), illus. 41. (See also in same reference William R. Valentiner's "The Raleigh Museum's First 220 Paintings: Notes on the Collections," 50).

Luisa Mortari, Bernardo Strozzi (Rome: 1966), 164, illus. fig. 265.

Nancy Wasell, "Bernardo Strozzi: An Account of his Artistic Development in Genoa as Related to his St. Lawrence Distributing the Goods of the Church to the Poor in the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh," (University of North Carolina student paper, 1967), illus. fig. 1 (Curatorial file).

Visions and Revisions (exhibition catalogue) (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1968), cat. no. XII-2.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 199.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 185.

Kunst in der Republik Genua 1528-1815 (exhibition catalogue) (Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1992), cat. no. 28, illus. (color).

Luisa Mortari, Bernardo Strozzi, rev. ed. (Rome: 1995), cat. no. 318.

Bernardo Strozzi Genova 1581/82 - Venezia 1644 (exhibition catalogue) (Genoa: Pal Ducale, 1995), 166, 180

Judith Walker Mann, "Baroque into Rococo: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Paintings," The Saint Louis Art Museum Winter 1997 Bulletin (1997), 38, illus.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for St. Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 134, illus. (color).

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for St. Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 284, illus. (color) 285.

G. Sarti, Caravaggesque Italian Painters: Painters of Reality (Paris: Galerie G. Sarti, 2013), mentioned and illus. 168, fig. 3.
Exhibition HistoryProvidence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, "Visions and Revisions," October 18-November 24, 1968, cat. no. XII-2.

Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Kunst in der Republik Genua 1528-1815," September 5-November 8, 1992, cat. no. 28.

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