Saints Julian, James, and Michael Artist: Agnolo Gaddi (Italian, active ca. 1369, died 1396)

ca. 1390

European Art

Not on view

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

unframed: 87 × 74.93 × 6.67 cm (34 1/4 × 29 1/2 × 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.20

Period

14th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Mark Leonard, Personal Viewpoints: Thoughts about Paintings Conservation (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003), 16–17, Agnolo Gaddi, fig. 4.
  • Andrew Ladis, "The Reflective Memory of a Late Trecento Painter: Speculations on the Origins and Development of the Master of San Martino a Mensola," Arte Cristiana 80, no. 752 (1992): 329, 333, note 20 (assistant of Agnolo Gaddi), fig. 12.
  • Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: A Legacy of Attributions (New York: H. B. J. Maginnis, 1981), 3, 20, 21, (assistant of Agnolo Gaddi).
  • Bruce Cole, Agnolo Gaddi (Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1977), 73, 76, school of Agnolo Gaddi, no. 1871.21 [sic];rejects association with the Contini Bonacossi altarpiece, now in the Galleria degli Uffizi, first proposed by Gronau 1950, pp. 41-47.
  • Miklos Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400 (Florence, Italy: Edam, 1975), 298, 301, Agnolo Gaddi, dated 1380-1385.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 76, 599.
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery: A Catalogue by Charles Seymour, Jr. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 37–39, no. 22, fig. 22.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, 1 (New York; Greenwich, Conn.: Phaidon, 1963), 68, Agnolo Gaddi.
  • Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 295.
  • Hans D. Gronau, "A Dispersed Florentine Altarpiece and its Possible Origin," Proporzioni 3 (1950): 41–47, pl. XXVI/fig. 6, XXVII/fig. 7 (Agnolo Gaddi); as part of Capella Castellani altarpiece in S. Croce with 1943.213, fig. 6, 7.
  • Roberto Salvini, L'arte di Agnolo Gaddi (Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1936), 186.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 214, Agnolo Gaddi.
  • Oskar Wulff-Berlin, "Nachlese zur Starnina-Frage," Italienische Studien (1929): 174, n. 2, 176, 188–189.
  • Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 51–53, no. 20, (Gherardo Starnina[?]), fig. 20.
  • William Rankin, Notes on the Collections of Old Masters at Yale University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum of Harvard University (Wellesley, Mass.: Department of Art of Wellesley College, 1905), 8, no. 21.
  • William Rankin, "Some Early Italian Pictures in the Jarves Collection of the Yale School of Fine Arts at New Haven," American Journal of Archaeology 10 (April-June 1895): 140, no. 21 (so-called Giottesque, described as spurious).
  • W. F. Brown, Boston, Catalogue of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures, sale cat. (1871), 14, lot 21 (Taddeo Gaddi).
  • Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1868), 34, no. 21.
  • James Jackson Jarves, Descriptive Catalogue of "Old Masters," Collected by James J. Jarves, to Illustrate the History of Painting from A.D. 1200 to the Best Periods of Italian Art (Cambridge, Mass.: H. O. Houghton and Co., 1860), 44, no. 25.

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