Italian paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago : a catalogue of the collection

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Label

Italian paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago : a catalogue of the collection

Title remainder

a catalogue of the collection

Statement of responsibility

by Christopher Lloyd ; with contributions by Margherita Andreotti, Larry J. Feinberg, and Martha Wolff ; Martha Wolff, general editor

Creator

• Art Institute of Chicago

Contributor

• Feinberg, Larry J
• Lloyd, Christopher, 1945-
• Wolff, Martha, 1949-
• Andreotti, Margherita

Subject

• Painting -- Illinois | Chicago -- Catalogs
• Painting, Italian -- Catalogs
• Art Institute of Chicago -- Catalogs
• Painting, Medieval -- Italy -- Catalogs
• Painting, Italian -- 16th century -- Catalogs
• Painting, Renaissance -- Italy -- Catalogs

Genre

• Catalogs

Language

eng

Summary

• The first in a projected series of scholarly catalogues on the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, this volume focuses on one of the finest and least published collections of early Italian paintings in the United States. The catalogue, written by Christopher Lloyd, contains comprehensive entries on close to one hundred paintings, ranging from an outstanding thirteenth-century panel by the Master of the Bigallo Crucifix to a recently rediscovered
• portrait of Alessandro de Medici by Pontormo. Also featured are a splendid group of early Sienese paintings (including six panels from one of Giovanni di Paolo's most important ensembles), a rare group of Florentine cassone panels, an early masterpiece by Correggio, and major works by Taddeo di Bartolo, Jacopo Bassano, Botticelli, Moretto, Moroni, Perugino, and Jacopo Tintoretto. In an introductory essay, Martha Wolff, the general editor of the catalogue and Curator of
• European Painting before 1750, discusses the central role played by Martin A. Ryerson (1836-1932), one of the museum's founders, in forming this collection. Each painting in the catalogue is accompanied by complete and up-to-date documentation, including a detailed description of physical condition, a fully documented provenance, and a critical discussion of attribution, date, subject, and function, as well as a summary of earlier scholarship. Forty works are reproduced
• in color, the rest in duotone; there are also eighty comparative illustrations

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

759.5/074/77311

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ND614

LC item number

.L66 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs