Christ Disputing in the Temple
painter
Giovanni di Paolo
(Siena, 1398 - 1482, Siena)
Dateabout 1450-1459
Place MadeSiena, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
MediumTempera on canvas on a modern panel
Dimensions26.7 x 23.6 cm (10 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP15w21
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIn 1463, Giovanni di Paolo, a master painter from Siena, was selected to decorate the Pope’s newly finished church in Pienza. He excelled at narrative subjects, and this painting—from the predella, or lowest register, of a large altarpiece—is one of his finest surviving examples. Isabella and her peers, like Philip Lehman, whose distinguished collection is now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, prized early Renaissance paintings from Siena for their exquisite details and jewel-like finishes. When Berenson recommended this one, he observed that Giovanni di Paolo is “all the rage now because the collectors not only of paintings, but of objets d’art are after him, and paying long prices for him.”
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Last Updated8/9/24
EmbARK ObjectID10939
Source ID198
Andrea Mantegna
about 1497-1500
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