Object details
Object number
S5w6.1-8
Creator(s)
Giovanni Battista Meduna
(Venice, 1810 - 1880, Venice)
Title
Balconies from the Ca' d'Oro
Date
1845-1855
Medium
Stone
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer Francesco Dorigo, Venice for 2,800 lire on 22 September 1897. (as a set of eight pairs of 15th century balconies)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 58. (as from the Ca d'Oro, Venice)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 21 (24 Jan. 1965), p. 2.
Linda Hewitt. "An Italian Palace?" Fenway Court (Feb. 1967), pp. 33, 36, ill.
Giovanni de Appolonia. "A Venetian Courtyard in Boston" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 182-84, 187, figs. 130-32. (as designed by Giovanni Battista Meduna, dated 1845-1855)
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi."'Foresti' In Venice in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Their Passion for Paintings, Brocades, and Glass." Atti dell' Instituto Veneto di Scienze, lettre ed arti (Venice, 2016), p. 7-8.
Alex Eliopoulos, "From Venice to the Fenway: Architecturual Elements in the Courtyard," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 6 April 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/venice-fenway-architectural-elements-courtyard
Gallery
Courtyard
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