The Shipwreck of Aeneas Artist: Apollonio di Giovanni (Italian, ca. 1416–1465)

ca. 1450–60

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

framed: 19 3/4 × 64 5/8 × 2 3/8 in. (50.17 × 164.15 × 6.03 cm)

Credit Line

University purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.34

Geography

Made in Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Ellen Callmann, "Apollonio di Giovanni," Dictionary of Art 2 (1996), 228
  • Ellen Callmann, "Apollonio di Giovanni," Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon 4 (1992), 525
  • Jennifer Klein Morrison, "Apollonio di Giovanni's 'Aeneid' Cassoni and the Virgil Commentators," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1992), 34–35
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 135
  • Attilio Schiaparelli, La casa fiorentina e i suoi arredi nei secoli XIV e XV, eds. Maria Sframelo, Laura Pagnotta, and Mina Gregori, 2 (Florence: Le Lettere, 1983), 81, note 233
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  • Mirella Levi-d'Ancona, Miniatura e miniatori a Firenze dal XIV al XVI secolo: Documenti per la storia della miniatura (Italy: Leo S. Olschki, 1962), 23–25
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Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Inscriptions

Some figures and the winds are identified in the Shipwreck scene: GVNONE, EVLO, AESTALE, LIBECIO, TR[MONTANA], GRECHO, LEVANTE, SOLO.O, MEZODI, PONENTE GRECHO, EURO, ZEFIRO, NET[UNNO], ENEA, VENERE, ACHATE, VENERE, ACHA[TE], ENEA.

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