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(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
An Angel Catching the Blood of the Redeemer
(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

An Angel Catching the Blood of the Redeemer

painter (Florence, 1473 - 1528)
Date1425-1475
Place MadeLombardy, Italy, Europe
MediumFresco and tempera on lime plaster transferred to linen
Dimensions57.8 x 40 cm (22 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP12w17
eMuseum ID720695
EmbARK ObjectID10747
TMS Source ID20
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesPhilip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 201. (dated 1400-1500)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 79. (dated 1400-1500)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 231.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 138. (dated 1425-1475)
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Antonio Carrer, Venice on 25 September 1897 for 120 lire.
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Alesso di Benozzo
about 1500
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Giovanni di Francia
1472
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Giovanni di Francia
1472
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Niccolò di Pietro Gerini
about 1380
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Neri di Bicci
1435-1440
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Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni
about 1430
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Giovanni di Francesco
about 1490
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Bicci di Lorenzo
1385-1390
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Giovanni di Paolo
about 1450-1459