Identification and Creation Object Number 1947.25 People Girolamo

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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1947.25
People
Girolamo di Benvenuto di Giovanni del Guasta, Italian
(Siena 1470 - 1524 Siena)
Title
Saint Catherine of Siena Intercedes with Christ to
Release the Dying Sister Palmerina from Her Pact with
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the Devil
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1505
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
32.4 x 54.9 cm (12 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
frame: 44.5 x 68 cm (17 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Frank
Lee Drummond Rust
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
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1947.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of
Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North
American Public Collections, Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 92
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990)
Catherine de Sienne, exh. cat., Grande Chapelle du
Palais des Papes (Avignon, France, 1992), cat. no. 90,
p. 255; repr. in color, p. 155
Maria Assunta Ceppari Ridolfi, Maghi, Streghe e
Alchimisti a Siena e nel suo territorio (1458-1571),
Edizioni il Leccio (Monteriggioni, Italy, 1999), detail
repr. in b/w as tav. XII, p. 134
Sarah Carr-Gomm, The Secret Language of Art,
Duncan Baird Publishers (London, England, 2001), pp.
164-165, repr.
Michel Laclotte and Esther Moench, Peinture Italienne:
Musee du Petit Palais, Avignon, Réunion des Musées
Nationaux (Paris, France, 2005), repr. pp. 114 and 238
Angelica Daneo, The Kress Collection at the Denver Art
Museum , Denver Art Museum (Denver, 2011), pp. 127,
130, repr. p. 130 as fig. 42
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revised and enhanced. For more information please
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