Object details

Object number

S12n5

Creator(s)

Bartolomeo Giolfino (Italian, 1410 - 1486)

Title

Tabernacle in a Triptych

Date

mid 15th century

Medium

Limestone (with some remnants of paint)

Dimensions

233.7 x 160 cm (92 x 63 in.)

Provenance

Said to have come from a church in the Veneto. Several frescoes (museum nos. P12w16-17, P12w20, and P12w24) are said to have come from the same church.
Purchased from the cabinet maker and antiquarian Antonio Carrer (d. 1912), Venice for about 2,400 lire on 25 September 1897.

Commentary

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Bibliography

Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as from the Veneto, gothic)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 76-77. (the central panel as Venetian, later 15th century; the two sides as recent construction)
Ulrich Middelorf. "Three Sculptors of the Veneto Represented at Fenway Court." Fenway Court (1973), pp. 6-8, figs. 8-9. (as attributed to Bartolomeo Giolfino, 1st half of the 15th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 128-29, no. 159. (as Bartolomeo Giolfino, middle of the 15th century)
J. Soultanian et al. :Conservation problems of the Veronese altar tripytch by Bartolomeo Giolfino at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston." Case studies in the conservation of stone and wall painting. IIC Congress (1986), pp. 72-74, figs. 1-5.

Gallery

East, North, And West Cloister

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