The Resurrected Christ Appearing to St. Magdalene

ca. 1514

Luca Signorelli Italian, ca. 1441-1523

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Title The Resurrected Christ Appearing to St. Magdalene

Artwork Date ca. 1514

Artist Luca Signorelli

Life Dates ca. 1441-1523

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Tempera and oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 7 3/8 × 16 11/16 inches (18.7 × 42.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 29.41

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Provenance

possibly 1514, S. Vincenzo (Mazzola Chapel, Cortona, Italy)

by 1900, collection of Mancini, probably Girolamo Mancini of his father (Cortona, Italy)

until 1916, collection Elia Volpi (Villa Pia, Florence, Italy)

November 27, 1916, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA), lot 981

1916, W.S. Greening (possibly New York, New York, USA)

(Sir Joseph Duveen, New York, New York, USA)

until 1929, (Walter Pach [1883-1958], New York, New York, USA)

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. "A Predella by Luca Signorelli," Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 7 (April 1929): pp. 91-95, (repr.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 211, (repr.).

Heil, W. "Eine Predella des Luca Signorelli," Cicerone, vol. 22 (1930): pp. 272-275, (repr.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 531.

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 456.

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 16. The Hague, 1937, p. 86, (repr.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 123, no. 211.

Mostra di Luca Signorelli. Cortona and Florence, 1953, p. 103, cat. 53 [org. by M. Moriondo].

Salmi, M. Luca Signorelli. Rome, 1953, pp. 65-66, pl. 76a [agrees that predella came from Communion of Apostles altarpiece now in Cortona].

Salmi, M. "Chiosa Signorelliana," Commentari, vol. 4 (1953): pp. 107-118, esp. p. 118.

Scarpellini, P. Luca Signorelli. Florence, 1964, p.140 [together with two predella sections owned by J. Weitzner, New York, probably belonged to Communion of the Apostles in the Museo Diocesano, Cortona, dated 1512].

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 100.

Moriondo, M.L. Signorelli. Florence, 1966, pp. 28, 38.

Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Central Italian and North Italian schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 396 [one of two predella panels to Cortona Communion of Apostles].

Simmons, S. A. "Luca Signorelli's Early Style and it's Relation to Northern Italy," Ph.D. diss., 1971.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 187.

Kanter, L.B. The Late Works of Luca Signorelli and his Followers 1498-1559, Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1989, pp. 234-5.

Kanter, L. B. "Some Late Altarpieces by Luca Signorelli," Studi di Storia dell'Arte vol. 2. Todi, 1991, pp. 85-102, esp. pp. 86-87, (fig. 5) [passing reference p. 87].

Chirico, Fabio De et al. Luca Signorelli. Exh. cat., Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. Perugia, April 21-August 26, 2012, no. 90, p. 264 (ill.).

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Luca Signorelli, The Resurrected Christ Appearing to St. Magdalene, ca. 1514, tempera and oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.41.