The Apostles Saint Andrew and Saint James the Lesser, with a Prophet Artist: Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian, Siena, active ca. 1306–1348)

1328–29

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

picture surface: 36.8 × 21.6 cm (14 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Hannah D. and Louis M. Rabinowitz

Accession Number

1959.15.1a-c

Geography

Made in Siena, Italy

Culture

Italian, Siena

Period

14th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
S. Maria Carmine, Siena, until the 19th century; E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; Rabinowitz Collection, Sands Point, Lond Island, (before 1945–1959).
Bibliography

  • Eliot W Rowlands, Masaccio: Saint Andrew and The Pisa Altarpiece (Los Angeles, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), 77–78.
  • Eliot W Rowlands, Masaccio: Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece (Los Angeles, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), 77–78.
  • Eve Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, Italian altarpieces 1250-1550: function and design, 33 (Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1994).
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 133.
  • Piero Torriti, La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena: I dipinti dal XII al XV secolo (Genoa, Italy: Genoa, 1977), 97–99.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 601.
  • 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), 75–77, no. 51a–c.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places, 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 1968), vol. 1, p. 219.
  • Charles Seymour Jr., The Rabinowitz Collection of European Paintings (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961), 12–13, 55.
  • Enzo Carli, Les Primitifs Siennois (Paris: Éditions Braun, 1957), 38.
  • Edna Perkel, An Exhibition of Paintings: for the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., exh. cat. (New York: E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., October 12–November 1, 1955), 14, no. 2.
  • Enzo Carli, Capolavori dell'arte senese (Florence: Florence, 1947), 44.
  • Louis M. Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz Collection (New York: The Twin Editions, 1945), 3–4.
  • Theodore Sizer, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of American Arts and Crafts," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 4 (December 1930): 54, P. Lorenzetti with assistance.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

prophet saint

Signed

Lorenzetti, Pietro and assistant

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