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The Crucifixion with Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and a Carthusian Saint (Bruno of Cologne?)
The Crucifixion with Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and a Carthusian Saint (Bruno of Cologne?)

The Crucifixion with Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and a Carthusian Saint (Bruno of Cologne?)

ArtistAttributed to Mariotto di Nardo active in Florence, 1394–1424
Datecirca 1400–1410
MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel
Dimensionsoverall: 13 × 9 7/8 in. (33 × 25.1 cm)
frame: 14 3/4 × 11 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (37.5 × 28.6 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.10
On View
On view
ProvenanceCount Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1937; on loan to the National Gallery of Art, 1941-52; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesPreliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 461 (as Lorenzo di Niccolò).

Marvin J. Eisenberg, "A Partial Reconstruction of a Predella by Mariotto di Nardo," Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin (1951), 1, illus. 1x.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 38, illus. (b-w) 39 (as Lorenzo de Niccolo).

Fern Rusk Shapley, Italian Pictures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XII- XIV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1966-73), 44, illus. fig. 110.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Italian Paintings of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (New York, 1968), 44-45.

Miklos Boskovits, "Sull' Attivita giovanile di Mariotto di Nardo," antichita`viva 7, no. 5 (Sept/Oct. 1968), 7, 13, illus. 5, fig. 2.

Miklos Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370 - 1400 (Firenze: Edam, 1975), 400, illus. fig. 478 (as Mariotto di Nardo).

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) 177 (as di Nardo).

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 164.

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 640, illus. (b-w) 641.
Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1941-1952, cat. no. 461 (as Lorenzo di Niccolò).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: Saint John the Evangelist and the Poisoned Chalice
Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi)
circa 1370–1380