About the Artwork
Pieta
between 1400 and 1420
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Italian
Italian
Linden wood with polychrome decoration
Overall: 43 5/16 × 29 5/8 × 17 13/16 inches (110 × 75.3 × 45.3 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
22.201
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
until about 1920, Hugo Benario (Berlin, Germany)
(J. and S. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt, Germany)
1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Koerte, W. "Deutsche Vesperbilder in Italien," Kunstgeschtliches Lahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 1 (1937): pp. 19-20, 117, (fig. 11 ill.).
Middledorf, U. Art Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 1. pp. 322, 324-326, (fig. 2 ill.).
Gillerman, D. ed. Gothic Sculpture in America, vol I. The New England Museums. New York & London, 1989, cat. no. 246, p. 332.
Gillerman, D. Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. II. The Museums of the Midwest. Belgium, 2001, p. 126, no. 95.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 74.
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Italian, Pieta, between 1400 and 1420, linden wood with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.201.
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