A Scene from the Legend of Saint Nicholas of Bari

ca. 1460–1470

Not on view

Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 12 1/8 × 12 in. (30.8 × 30.5 cm)
Credit Line: University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves
Accession Number: 1871.39
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

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), 165–166

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places: The Florentine School, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1963), 1:156

Rediscovered Italian Paintings, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1952), 30–31

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. 10

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), 388

Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 10 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1928), 523–546

Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 99–100

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, no. 2 (April-June 1895), 147

Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale College, 1868), 60

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), 48–49, no. 53

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Object/Work type

religious art

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