Scenes from the Lives of the Hermits of the Thebaid

ca. 1460

Not on view

Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 13 1/4 × 17 9/16 in. (33.7 × 44.6 cm)
Credit Line: University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves
Accession Number: 1871.37
Geography: Made in Florence, Italy
Culture: Italian, Florence
Period: 15th century
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

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

Bibliography

Bagliori dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze 1375–1440, exh. cat. (Florence: Guinti Editore S.p.A., 2012), 90–91, fig. 8

Luciano Berti and Giovanna Damiani, Nel raggio di Piero: La pittura nell'Italia centrale nell'eta di Piero della Francesca (Venice: Marsilio, 1992), 84–86, Giuliano Amidei

Carlo Bertelli, Piero della Francesca (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992), 174, Giuliano Amedei

Gaudenz Freuler, 'Manifestatori delle cose miracolose': Arte italiana del ’300 e ’400 da collezioni in Svizzera e nel Lichtenstein, exh. cat. (Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland: Foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1991), 250–52

Hugh Brigstocke, Italian and Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1978), 589

Hugh Brigstocke, "Panels showing the 'Death of St. Ephraim'," The Burlington Magazine 118 (1976), 584–86, 589, Giuliano Amedei

Ellen Callmann, "Thebaid Studies," Antichita Viva 14 (1975), 16, Master of the Misericordia, who may not be G. Amidei

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 221, 599

Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 160, no. 115

James Byam Shaw, Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford (London: Phaidon Press, 1967), 40, as Master of the Crawford Thebaid

Ellen Callmann, "A Quattrocento Jigsaw Puzzle," Burlington Magazine 99 (1959), 149–55, as Florentine

Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 298

"Picture Book Number One: Italian Painting," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 15, nos. 1–3 (October 1946), fig. 21

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), 102

Richard Offner, Italian Primitives at Yale University: Comments and Revisions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1927), 34

Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 93–96

Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale College, 1868), 55

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, 1860), 48, no. 48

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Object/Work type

religious art

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