About the Artwork
The Dream of Daniel
1545
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Italian
Italian
Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration
Overall: 1 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (4.4 × 29.2 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
21.192
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in blue, within the foot-ring: daniello sogniando | di veder tuti lipechati | mora- tali et era in grande | afanno vine langiolo | dalcielo esi loresvegio | 1545 [translation: Daniel dreaming of seeing all the mortal sins and he was in great anxiety. The angel came from heaven and he woke up.]
Provenance
(Henri and Max Heilbronner, Berlin, Germany)
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lee, S. "Daniel's Dream - A Significant Misnomer." Art Quarterly 9, no. 3 (Summer 1946): pp. 257-260.
Brendel, O.J. "Letter to the Editor." Art Quarterly 10, no. 1 (Winter 1947): p. 61.
Page, A.F. Le Vie del Mondo 16, no. 4 (April 1954): p. 368.
Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1958, no. 107.
Selected Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, p. 6.
Peck, James. "Daniel Dreaming: A misnomer revisited." Apollo (January 2003).
Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 21.
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Maiolica and Bronze. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2018, p. 73 (pl. 24).
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Italian, The Dream of Daniel, 1545, tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.192.
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