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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.195.A
People
Lippo di Benivieni, Italian (1300 - 1325)
Title
Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1320
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232271

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera and gold leaf on wood with engaged frame
Dimensions
including engaged frame: 49.7 × 35 cm (19 9/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Abigail Osgood Williams and Mary Elizabeth Williams [1], Salem, by descent [?]; to Henry M. Williams, Boston, their nephew, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1917

Notes
[1] According to a letter from Henry Williams to Edward W. Forbes, the painting was likely purchased in Rome between 1860 and 1872

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Fund
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.195.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mario Salmi, "Il 'Compianto' dell'Ospedale del Ceppo", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d'arte Pistoia (April 24-30, 1966), pp. 303-307, pp. 305, fig. 22
  • George Harold Edgell, "[Review] The Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge", Art and Archaeology (July 1915), Vol. 2, pp.13
  • Chandler R. Post, "The Loan Exhibition of Italian Painting at the Fogg Museum", The Nation, v. 100, no. 2594, March 18, 1915, pp. 314
  • "Museum and Societies; grouped by States", American Art Annual, ed. Florence N. Levy (Washington, D.C., 1917), vol. XIV, pp.135
  • William N. Bates, "Archaeological News: Notes on Recent Excavations and Discoveres; Other News", American Journal of Archaeology (January - March 1918), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 73-100, pp.97
  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), pp.105, no. 18A
  • Raimond Van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, 1923-1938), vol. II, pp. 301-303, 608
  • Evelyn Sandberg Vavalà, La Croce Dipinta Italiana e L'iconografia della Passione (Verona, 1929), pp. 463-463
  • Bernard Berenson, "Quadri senza Casa: Trecento e Quattrocento Senese", Dedalo (November 1930), vol. 11, pp. 329-362, pp. 347
  • Piero Misciatelli, "Le Pitture Senesi del Museo Fogg", La Diana (1932), Vol. 7
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1932), p. 9
  • Anna Maria Gabbrielli, "Ancora del barna pittore delle storie del Nuovo Testamento nella Collegiata di S. Gimignano", Bollettino senese (1936), ser. 7, pp. 128
  • C. Law Watkins, Emotinal Design in Painting: An Exhibition at the Phillips Memorial Gallery, April 7 to May 5, 1940, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C., 1940), cat. no. 61
  • Cesare Brandi, Quattrocentisti senesi (Milan, 1949), pp. 173-174, no. 6
  • Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1951), pp. 61 n. 6
  • Millard Meiss, Primitifs Italiens a l'Orangerie, La revue des arts (Paris, October 1956), VI, pp. 147
  • Karl Birkmeyer, "The Pieta from San Remigio", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, November 1962), pp. 472-473, fig, 11
  • Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, Phaidon Press (London, 1966), pp. 31
  • William E. Suida, The Samuel H. Kress Collection: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery Memphis, Tennessee (1966), pp. 22
  • 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. 242 [as 14th century Umbria]
  • Roberto Longhi, La Pittura Umbra della prima meta del Trecento, ed. Mina Gregori (1973)
  • Giulietta Chelazzi Dini, "Miniatori toscani e miniatori umbri: il caso del Laudario B.R. 18 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Frienze", Prospettiva (October 1979), 19, pp. 14-35, pp. 21-22, 35 n. 41
  • Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupre dal Poggetto, Il Maestro del Codice di San Giorgio e il Cardinale Jacopo Stefaneschi (Florence, 1981), pp. 170, fig. 226
  • Michele Cordaro, "Le Raccolte Civiche", Museo Civico di Pistoia: Catalogo delle collezioni, ed. Maria Cecilia Mazzi (Florence, 1982), pp. 96
  • Miklós Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting (Florence, 1984), 28, 30, 176-177, pl. XLVIIIb
  • Pier Paolo Donati, "Nell'ambito di Lippo di Benivieni", Paragone (1985), 36, pp. 17-21, pp. 18
  • Richard Offner and Miklós Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting (Florence, 1986), pp. 182 (bib)
  • Miklós Boskovits, Frühe Italienische Malerei, Gebr. Mann Verlag (Berlin, 1988), pp. 51
  • Monica Bietti Favi, "Indizi Documentari du Lippo di Benivieni", Studi di Storia dell'Arte (1990), vol. 1, pp. 243
  • 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), pp. 116, 283, repr. b/w cat. no. 486
  • Luciano Bellosi, Un Cimabue per Piero de' Medici e il 'Maestro della Pieta di Pistoia', Prospettiva (July 1992), no. 67, 49-52, pp. 51, fig. 3
  • Laurence Kanter, Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1994), pp. 6, fig. 4
  • Roberto Longhi, "Apertura sui trecentisti umbri", Paragone (January 1996), no. 191, pp. 3-17, pp. 16 pl. 12
  • Christopher Fulton, An Earthly Paradise: The Medici, their Collection and the Foundations of Modern Art, L. S. Olschki (Florence, 2006), pp. 277-278, fig. 100
  • Jacqueline Musacchio, Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2008), pp. 222-223, fig. 228b
  • Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood, Anachronic Renaissance, Zone Books (New York, 2010), pp. 396, n. 26

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