A Bishop Saint
painter
Michele Giambono
(active 1420 - 1462)
Date1420-1452
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumTempera with oil glazes on pine panel
Dimensions38.8 x 28.9 cm (15 1/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP15e1
eMuseum ID722163
EmbARK ObjectID10790
TMS Source ID59
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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. 9. (as attributed to Giacomo Bello)
Bernard Berenson. Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century (New York, 1916), pp. 5, 23. (as Michele Giambono, with a suggested reconstruction of the altarpiece)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 160. (as Michele Giambono)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 94. (as Michele Giambono)
Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà. "The Reconstruction of a Polyptych by Michele Giambono." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 10 (1947), pp. 20-26, fig. 14a.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 34 (25 Apr. 1965), p. 2. (as Michele Giambono)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 101-103. (as Michele Giambono, part of an altarpiece from Padua)
Norman E. Land. "A New Panel by Michel Giambono and a Reconstructed Altar-piece." Apollo (March, 1984), pp. 160-65, fig. 8. (as Michele Giambono)
Cristina Pesaro. "Michele Giambono." Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte, no. 18 (1992), pp. 23, 31, fig 29. (as Michele Giambono)
Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at Villa I Tatti (Milan, 2015), pp. 303-305, figs. 41.4, 41.5. (as Michele Giambono; as "Saint Maurus")
Tiziana Franco in Matteo Ceriana and Valeria Poletto. Il Paradiso riconquistato, trame d'oro e colore nella pittura di Michele Giambono. Exh. cat. (Venice: Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2016), pp. 21,159-60, fig. 8.
Bernard Berenson. Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century (New York, 1916), pp. 5, 23. (as Michele Giambono, with a suggested reconstruction of the altarpiece)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 160. (as Michele Giambono)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 94. (as Michele Giambono)
Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà. "The Reconstruction of a Polyptych by Michele Giambono." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 10 (1947), pp. 20-26, fig. 14a.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 34 (25 Apr. 1965), p. 2. (as Michele Giambono)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 101-103. (as Michele Giambono, part of an altarpiece from Padua)
Norman E. Land. "A New Panel by Michel Giambono and a Reconstructed Altar-piece." Apollo (March, 1984), pp. 160-65, fig. 8. (as Michele Giambono)
Cristina Pesaro. "Michele Giambono." Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte, no. 18 (1992), pp. 23, 31, fig 29. (as Michele Giambono)
Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at Villa I Tatti (Milan, 2015), pp. 303-305, figs. 41.4, 41.5. (as Michele Giambono; as "Saint Maurus")
Tiziana Franco in Matteo Ceriana and Valeria Poletto. Il Paradiso riconquistato, trame d'oro e colore nella pittura di Michele Giambono. Exh. cat. (Venice: Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2016), pp. 21,159-60, fig. 8.
MarksNotesInscribed (upper left): M[?]vro [Maurus]
ProvenanceNotesPossibly from an altarpiece in Padua.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Michelangelo Guggenheim for 780 lire on 28 September 1897 while in Venice with Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian. (as Vivarini)
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Michelangelo Guggenheim for 780 lire on 28 September 1897 while in Venice with Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian. (as Vivarini)
Andrea Mantegna
about 1497-1500
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