The Dormition of the Virgin

Artist: Bernardino di Giovanni da Castelletto (Italian, active 1481, died after 1500)
After: Andrea del Castagno (Italian, ca. 1421–1457)

ca. 1460

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

11 1/16 × 27 1/4 in. (28.1 × 69.2 cm)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.38

Culture

Italian, Lucca

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
  • Silvano Soldano, Bernardino del Castelletto: pittore a Massa (Cinisello Balsamo, Italy: Silvana, 1994), 80–83
  • Mauro Natale, "Note sulla pittura lucchese alla fine del Quattrocento," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal (1980), 43, n.34
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 599
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 135, no. 92
  • Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 298
  • Mario Salmi, Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Domenico Veneziano (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1938), 73, 167, 176, fig. 176a
  • Mario Salmi, Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Domenico Veneziano: avec 200 reproductions hors texte (Paris: A. Weber, 1937), 62, 127, pl. CLVa
  • 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), 195
  • Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 97–98, no. 38
  • Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale College, 1868), 58, no. 58
  • 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. 51
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

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