Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: Saint John the Evangelist Correcting a Philosopher Named Crato

Artist Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi) Italian, active circa 1359–1374

Datecirca 1370–1380

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

Dimensions14 x 16 1/4 in. (35.6 x 41.3 cm)
Frame: 21 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. (55.2 x 57.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.18

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ProvenanceCollection Baron Fassini, Rome; Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1932; Kress Foundation gift to NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesL. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, Vol. 1 (1933), no. 111.

Bernhard Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento (Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1936), 344 (as Allegretto Nuzi).

Federico Zeri, "Note su quadri italiani all' estero," Bollettino d' Arte 24, no. 2 (January-March 1949), 21-22, illus. figs. 3, 5c (as Allegretto Nuzi).

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (exhibition catalogue) (Washington DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 210 (as Allegretto Nuzi).

Fern R. Shapley, Handbook of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Paintings of the Renaissance (Portland, OR: The Portland Art Museum, 1952), 20f.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 48, illus. (b-w) 49 (as Allegretto Nuzi).

F. R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 75-76, illus. fig. 210 (as Allegretto Nuzi).

Keith Christiansen, "Fourteenth-Century Italian Altarpieces," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 40, no. 1 (Summer 1982), 48-49, illus. fig. 45 (attributed to Francescuccio di Cecco Ghissi].

Introduction to the Collections, rev.ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 162.

Pietro Zampetti and Giampiero Donnini, Gentile e I Pittori di Fabriano (Florence, 1992), 24, 64, illus. (color) 47.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 108, 110.

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 624, illus. (b-w) 625.

“In the Galleries / Reunited: Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2017 Calendar), illus. (color) 14.

Lucia Biondi, ed., Elogio del Trecento fabrianese: materiali per Allegretto Nuzi e dintorni, (Florence, Italy: Mandragora, 2017), illus. (color)
Exhibition HistoryAtlanta, GA, "An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York; Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum; San Antonio, TX, Witte Memorial Museum, June 10-July 1, 1943, cat. p. 29 (formerly attributed to Allegretto Nuzi).

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," 1941 - 1952, cat. no. 204 (as Allegretto Nuzi) [1st.(?) or 2nd(?) ed.].

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. 4.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Reunited: Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece,” September 10, 2016–March 5, 2017; Portland, OR, Portland Art Museum, March 25–July 9, 2017.
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