Scene from the Legend of Saint John Gualbert Artist, attributed to: Giovanni del Biondo (Florence, documented 1356–99)

ca. 1390

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

overall, excluding later additions: 13 3/16 × 24 3/16 in. (33.5 × 61.4 cm)
picture surface: 11 7/8 × 20 5/16 in. (30.2 × 51.6 cm)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves Collection

Accession Number

1871.30

Geography

Made in Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888), Florence, by 1859; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Eling Skaug, Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico: Attribution, Chronology and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting, 1, 2 (Oslo: Nordic Group, 1994), 202–203, Giovanni del Biondo; punch marks in frame border indicate the "full, plastic style of the later seventies"
  • Bruce Cole, Agnolo Gaddi (Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1977), 72, unidentified Florentine, c. 1390-1420
  • Miklos Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400 (Florence, Italy: Edam, 1975), 411, Gerini, ca. 1375-1380
  • 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), 137, no. 95
  • 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
  • Lionello Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, 1 (New York: E. Weyhe, Inc., 1933), pl. 137 (Giovanni dal Ponte)
  • 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, as Agnolo Gaddi
  • Lionello Venturi, Pitture Italiane in America, 2 (Milan, Italy: Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli, 1931), pl. CXLIV (Giovanni dal Ponte)
  • Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 19 vols. (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923–38), vol. 9, p. 86
  • Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 77–78, no. 30, (Giovanni Dal Ponte), fig. 30
  • Osvald Sirén, "Trecento Pictures in American Collections-III," Burlington Magazine 14 (1908-1909), 325, pl. I/3 (Giovanni dal Ponte)
  • 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), 9, no. 30
  • 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), no. 30 (as one of the "pictures of slight interest… may be passed without further notice, with no loss to completeness of the survey")
  • W. F. Brown, Boston, Catalogue of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures, sale cat. (1871), 16, lot 30 (Jacopo)
  • Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1868), 38–39, no. 30
  • 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. 26
  • Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, 7, part 1 (Milan: U. Hoplei, Venturi), 27, Giovanni di Marco di Santo Stefano, called Giovanni da Ponte
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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