Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian

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Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian

Artist Matteo di Pacino Italian, active in Florence circa 1359–1374

Datecirca 1370–1374

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

DimensionsMain panel: 53 5/8 x 31 ¼ x 1 5/8 in. (135.6 x 79.4 x 4.1cm.)
Left predella: 7 ¼ x 16 1/8 x 1 ¼ in. (18.4 x 41 x 3.2 cm.)
Right predella: 7 ¼ x 16 x 1 ¼ in. (18.4 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm.)
Frame: 68 x 33 1/2 in. (172.7 x 85.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.9/a-c

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ProvenanceJ. Sumári, 1930s; Dr. Rudolf Bedö (1891–1978), Budapest, from whose collection it was likely sold shortly after a 1937–1938 exhibition in Budapest; [research in progress on sale from Budapest collector to Contini Bonacossi]; [Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878–1955), Rome and Florence]; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, on 1 September 1939 (as by the Master of the Rinuccini Chapel); on loan from the Kress Foundation to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1945–1954; returned to the Kress Foundation (1954?); given by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesRichard Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting (1927), 120, illus. fig.17.

C. L. Ragghianti, "Mostra d'arte antica italiana a Budapest," Critica d'Arte (August-December 1938), 1 (as Rinuccini Master).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 36, illus. (b-w) 37 (as Rinuccini Master).

Paul Wescher, "Die Kress-Schenkung für Raleigh," Pantheon (21 January-February 1963), 8-13, illus. 8.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of Principal Artists and their Works, with an Index of Places, Florentine School, Vol. 1 (London: Phaidon Press, 1963), 143, illus. pl. 285.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Spring-Fall 1964), listed 55.

R. Offner and K. Steinweg, Corpus of Florentine Painting (Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin, 1965), 116, no. 3 (as The Master of the Prato Annunciation).

Miklos Boskovits, Primitifs italiens (Budapest: Corvina, 1966), pl .35.

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 201, no.13 (September 25, 1967), 145-149, illus. cover.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII-XV Century, Vol.1 (London: Phaidon Press, 1968), 36.

Moody Medical Library, The Bookman 1, no. 12 (Galveston: University of Texas Medical Branch (December 1974), illus. cover.

Miklos Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400 (Florence: Edam, 1975), 57-58. Cf. 35, 202n.107, 209n.33, 226n.66, 357-59, 368.

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat; Ladislas Burgner, ed., The Image of the Black In Western Art, Vol. 2, Pt. 2 (Switzerland: Menil Foundation, 1979), 73-76, 276, 304, 315, illus. pls. 80-81.

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) 178.

Miklos Boskovits, Frühe Italiensch Maleriei (Gemaldegalerie, Berlin: Gerb. Mann, ca. 1988), 112-113 (as Matteo De Pacino: Master of Rinuccini Chapel).

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 161.

Judith Danielle Jaquet, et al., Les Miracles Miroirs des Corps (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1983).

Kees W. Zimmerman, One Leg in the Grave (Maarsen: Elsevier/Bunge, 1998), 25, illus. (color) 69.

The “Sacco di Budapest” and Depredation of Hungary, 1938–1949 (Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery, 1998), no. 2410, illus.

Mojmir S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Paintings, pt. 1 (Prague: Maxdorf, 1998), 234, 512.

Irfan Shahid, "Arab Christianity Before the Rise of Islam," in Christianity: A History in the Middle East, Habib Badr, ed. (Beirut, Lebanon: Middle East Council of Churches, 2005), illus. (color) 439.

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 644, illus. (b-w) 645, detail (b-w) frontispiece.

David Steel, entry for St. Cosmas and St. Damian, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 256, illus. (color) 257.

Joaneath Spicer, ed., Revealing the African Presence in Europe (exhibition catalogue) (Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 2012), checklist no. 35a-b, illus. (color) 126 (predellas only).

Daniel Cross Turner, “Lyric Dissections: Rendering Blood Memory in Natasha Trethewey’s and Yusef Komunyakaa’s Poetry of the Black Diaspora,” in The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013), discussed 110, 112, illus. (color) 111.

Rachelle Garbarine, “Pictures of Faith,” NCCatholics (December 2015), mentioned 17, briefly discussed 18–19.

Nebojša J. Jovic and Marios Theologou, “The Miracle of the Black Leg: Eastern Neglect of Western Additions to the Hagiography of Saints Cosmas and Damian,” in Acta medico-historica Adriatica 13, no. 2 (2015), briefly discussed and illus. (detail) 333, fig. 2.

Dr. Andreas Schumacher, ed. Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Hirmer, Alte Pinakothek, 2018), illus.Exhibition HistoryBudapest, Early Italian Art, December 1937-January 1938 (as Florentine School, second half of 14th century).

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art 1945-54, no. 867 (as Rinuccini Master).

Baltimore, MD, Walters Art Museum, “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe,” October 14, 2012–January 21, 2013 (predella panels only), cat. checklist no. 35a-b, illus. (color) 126.

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