Panel from a wedding chest: The Battle of Actium

Artist Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi Italian, 1447–1500

Datecirca 1475–1480

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

Dimensions14 3/8 x 44 1/8 in. (36.5 x 112.1 cm)
Frame: 18 5/8 x 52 1/4 in. (47.3 x 132.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.30

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ProvenanceThe Earl of Northesk [? David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 11th Earl Northesk (1901-63)], Ethie Castle, Arbroath; sold, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 13, 1928, lot 21, as by Matteo di Giovanni, The Story of St. Ursula, bought by Hallyn; Edward Hutton, London and Florence (1875-1969); Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1936; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesThe Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 68, illus. (b-w) 69.

Gertrude Coor, Neroccio De' Landi, 1447 - 1500 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961), 28, 29-32, 58, 78, 95, (fn. 335), 176 (38), 195, illus. fig. 12.

Ray Bethers, The Language of Paintings (New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1963), illus. 39.

Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1961), cat. no. 72.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 56.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV - XVI Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1966), 154, 155, illus. fig. 418, K438.

Ellen Callman, Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance (exhibition catalogue) (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1980), cat. no. 8, illus.

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) 180-181.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 166-67.

Marilena Caciorgna, "Temi plutarchei nella pittura del Quattrocento: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi e il Maestro di Stratonice," Fontes 1, nos. 1-2 (1998), 177-207, illus. (b-w) fig. 13.

Josiah Ober, "Not by a Nose," in What If? 2, Robert Cowley, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001), illus. (b-w) 26-27.

Benjamin David, "Narrative in Context: The Cassoni of Francesco di Giorgio," in Renaissance Siena (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies Series 71), A. Lawrence Jenkens, ed. (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2005), briefly discussed 125.

Luke Syson, et al, Renaissance Siena: Art for a City (exhibition catalogue) (London: National Gallery Company, Ltd., 2007), cat. no. 56, illus. (color).

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 652, illus. (b-w) 653.

Valentina Tagliabue, Francesco di Giorgio Martini Pittore, Capobottega e Socio di Neroccio de’ Landi. Osservazioni Critiche e Questioni Tecniche, Ph.D. dissertation, Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano, 2009–2010, 127–131, illus. 127.

Jaynie Anderson, “Die Neuerfindung Kleopatras in der italienischen Renaissance,” in Kleopatra: Die Ewige Diva (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Hirmer Verlag for Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2013), illus. (color) 61, fig. 7 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 40.Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. no. 72.

Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, "Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance," September 28-December 28, 1980, cat. no. 8, illus. 11.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Kaleidoscope: Pattern in Art," gallery guide for the Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery 1988, illus.

London, The National Gallery, "Renaissance Siena: Art for a City," October 24, 2007-January 13, 2008, cat. no. 56, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined,: May 13, 2024–present. Object Rights Statement

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