A Hero of Antiquity
painter
Neroccio di Bartolommeo de'Landi
(Siena, 1447 - 1500, Siena)
Dateabout 1500
Place MadeSiena, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
MediumTempera on panel
Dimensions85.7 x 52.7 cm (33 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP16s13
eMuseum ID718314
EmbARK ObjectID10961
TMS Source ID220
Last Updated11/23/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis painting is part of a group of images of ancient heroes that were set into the walls of a Renaissance interior. With the ornate costumes, rakish pose (one hip thrust out), and long hair, the figures merge classical heroes with fashionable young men of Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance enthusiasm for such heroic figures may be found in other works in this gallery. Look for Romans with drawn swords in The Story of Lucretia and the figure of Saint George battling a dragon.
BibliographyNotesBernard Berenson. "Les Peintures Italiennes de New York et de Boston." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1896), pp. 203, 206-07, ill. (as Baldassare Peruzzi)
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 7, no. 12. (as Peruzzi)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 11. (as Peruzzi, entitled "Portraits of Princes of the Medici Family")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 333-35. (as Luca Signorelli)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 110. (as Luca Signorelli)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 235. (as Sienese)
Laurence Kanter in Keith Christiansen et al. Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420-1500. Exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), p. 358 (as follower of Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), p.115, fig. e. (as Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, dated about 1496)
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 7, no. 12. (as Peruzzi)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 11. (as Peruzzi, entitled "Portraits of Princes of the Medici Family")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 333-35. (as Luca Signorelli)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 110. (as Luca Signorelli)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 235. (as Sienese)
Laurence Kanter in Keith Christiansen et al. Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420-1500. Exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), p. 358 (as follower of Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), p.115, fig. e. (as Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, dated about 1496)
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before 1896.
