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

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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

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth (panel): 13 1/2 × 10 1/8 × 1 1/4 in. (34.3 × 25.7 × 3.2 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

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Label Text
It is probable that this Crucifixion, together with two other panels in the Vatican Picture Gallery that depict the Annunciation and the birth of Christ, originally formed part of a predella, the long horizontal structure that supported the main panel or panels of an altarpiece. Although the figures of John the Evangelist and the Virgin Mary are traditionally found in representations of the Crucifixion, the presence of John the Baptist and the other saint—recognizable as a bishop by his hat (miter) and pastoral staff (crosier)—provide clues to the painting’s origin. The unidentified bishop saint wears the white robes of a Carthusian monk, indicating that the altarpiece was probably painted for a Carthusian monastery.
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).

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