(c) 2024 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

(c) 2011 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Ceiling

furniture maker Unknown

Dateabout 1500

Place MadeOrvieto, Umbria, Italy, Europe

MediumPainted wood

Dimensions890 x 587 cm (350 3/8 x 231 1/8 in.)

ClassificationsFurniture

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberF21c5

eMuseum ID729236

Previous Number638

EmbARK ObjectID14499

TMS Source ID3275

Last Updated9/10/24

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.

BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 13. (as Roman)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 168.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 191.
Betty Chamberlain. “Gothic Room” in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 40.
A. Hyatt Mayor. "Mrs. Gardner Comes to Call." Fenway Court (1972), p. 40.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 190.
Pieranna Cavalchini and Amanda Esteves-Kraus (eds.). Portrait (Boston, 2012), p. 47. (quoting the Diary of Willard T. Sears, 28 July 1901)

ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner through Richard Norton (1872–1918), art historian and archaelogist, in Rome, November 1897 for 8,000 lire.