Saint John Gualbert Pardons his Brother's Killer in the Church of San Miniato al Monte, Florence

Artist Benvenuto di Giovanni b, 1436, Siena; d. 1509/1518, Siena

Datecirca 1476–1478

MediumTempera on panel, transferred to fiberboard

Dimensions13 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (33.7 x 19.7 cm)
Frame: 17 x 11 5/8 x 2 in. (43.2 x 29.5 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.31

On View

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ProvenancePrivate collection (possibly Kauffman collection), Berlin, 1889; Prof. Richard von Kaufmann (d. 1908), Berlin; sale Cassirer, Berlin, December 4, 1917, no. 42; Heinrich Freiherr von Tucher (d.1925), Vienna and Nuremberg and [later] Munich[?]; not listed in 1925 Cassirer and Helbing sale of Tucher's works; [possibly Baron Hans Christopher Tucher, Johannesburg, South Africa (a dealer who inherited some of his uncle's pictures)] Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1950; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesF. Harck, "Quadri di maestri italiani in possesso di privati a Berlino," Archivio storico dell' Arte, II (1889), 206-7 (as Crivelli).

Gustavo Frizzoni, "Ricordo di un viaggio artistico oltralpe-- La Galleria Kauffmann in Berlino," L'Arte 5 (1902), 293-5 (293 as Niccolò da Foligno).

B. Geiger, in Thieme-Becker Kunstler Lexikon (1913), 132 (as Crivelli, in von Kauffmann coll., Berlin).

F. M. Perkins, "Ancora dei dipinti sconosciuti della Scuola Senese," Rassegna d'Arte Senese 3 (1907), 76 (as Benvenuto di Giovanni).

Cassirer's (auction catalogue) (Berlin: Cassirer's, 4 December, 1917), no. 42 (as Scene from a Legend by Carlo Crivelli).

Bernard Berenson, "Quadri senza casa, Il Quattrocento senese. I," Dedalo 11 (1931), 643-4 (as Benvenuto di Giovanni, current location unknown).

Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Vol. 16 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1937), 409, 420 (reprinted by Hacker Art Books, New York, 1970).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 70, illus. (b-w) 71.

Paul Wescher, "Die Kress-Schenkung für Raleigh," Pantheon 21, no.1 (January/February 1963), 9-11, illus. 10.

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

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Paintings XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 159, illus. fig. 433.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 22, illus. (b-w) 23.

B. Fredericksen and D. Davisson, Benvenuto di Giovanni. Girolamo di Benvenuto. Their Altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and A Summary Catalogue of Their Paintings in America (Malibu, 1966), 26, 28, 35.

Maria Cristina Bandera, "Qualche osservazione su Benvenuto di Giovanni," Antichità viva XIII, 1 (1974), 11-12, 16 illus. fig. 30, n. 34, 17 n. 37.

Cf. M. C. Bandera, "Variazioni ai cataloghi Berensoniani di Benvenuto di Giovanni," Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Ugo Procacci, 2 vols. (1977).

Maria Cristina Bandera, Benvenuto de Giovanni (Milan: Federico Motta Editore, 1999), 112, 114, 230, illus. (b-w) 115.

Perri Lee Roberts, et al, Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections (exhibition catalogue) (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2002), cat. no. 37, illus. (color) 173.

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 604, illus. (b-w) 605.

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 HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 22, illus. (b-w) 23.

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, "Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections," October 12, 2002-January 5, 2003; Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, January 26-April 13, 2002; Sarasota, FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, May 31-August 10, 2003, cat. no. 37, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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