The Battle of Greeks and Amazons; Allegories of Hope and Justice

Artist: Paolo Uccello (Italian, Florence, 1397–1475)

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

35 × 77 1/2 × 29 in. (88.9 × 196.9 × 73.7 cm)
front panel: 19 1/2 × 68 3/4 in. (49.5 × 174.6 cm)
right panel: 16 1/8 × 20 7/8 in. (41 × 53 cm)
left panel: 16 1/16 × 20 5/8 in. (40.8 × 52.4 cm)
inside of lid: 20 13/16 × 67 1/8 in. (52.8 × 170.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts

Accession Number

1933.61

Period

15th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Cornelia, Countess of Craven, Combe Abbey, England; Stora, Paris, by 1929; Marie Sterner Galleries, New York (through Mr. J. Furst of Stora).
Bibliography
  • Lisa R. Brody et al., "A 'Cassone' Painted in the Workshop of Paulo Uccello and Possibly Carved in the Workshop of Domenico del Tasso," in "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 114–17, fig. 1–7
  • Everett Fahy, The Wrightsman Pictures (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2005), 8, fig. 2
  • Ellen Callmann, "Subjects from Boccaccio in Italian Painting, 1375–1525," Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995), 37
  • Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), 28, note 17
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 222, 600
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 141
  • Theodore Sizer, "An Italian Cassone," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 6 (1934), 24–5, fig. 1933.61
  • Tancred Borenius, Italienische Studien: Paul Schubring zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet (Liepzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1929), 1–9, fig. 3–7
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Object/Work type

allegories, cassoni

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