Object details
Object number
P30n1
Creator(s)
Italian, Liguria
Title
Saint Thomas Receives the Virgin's Girdle
Date
about 1450-1500
Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
217 x 204 cm (85 7/16 x 80 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art and antiques dealer Giuseppe Piccoli, Venice in 1899 for 5,000 lire. (as a fifteenth century altarpiece)
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
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 273. (as fifteenth century, as possibly Spanish (Catalan); as previously attributed to Ludovico Brea (1443-1523); as previously attributed to the style of Giacomo Durandi)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), pp. 230-31. (as fifteenth century, as Ligurian School)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 136-37. (as dated 1400-1500, as Ligurian School, noting similarities to the works of Ludovico Brea and Giacomo Durandi)
Giuliana Algeri and Anna De Floriani. La Pittura in Liguria. Il Quattrocento (Genoa, 1991), pp. 353-55, ill. (as attributed to Ligurian-Piemontese painter active between 1490 and 1495, as made for a destination in western Liguria)
Vittorio Natale. "Il Maestro del polittico di Boston" in Giovanni Romano (ed.). Primitivi piemontesi nei musei di Torino (Turin, 1996), pp. 56-58, ill. (as circa 1485, as attributed to the Master of the Boston Polyptych, as by the same hand as a polyptych in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin, inv. no. unknown)
Marco Piccat. "Iconografie e rinvii testuali. L'esempio del 'Santo Martire Guerriero'(?) alla Galleria Sabauda." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 41, no. 3 (1997), p. 377 (as attributed to the Master of the Boston Polyptych citing Natale, pp. 54-64, 97-103)
Gallery
Gothic Room
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