About the Artwork
Saint John the Baptist
between 1370 and 1377
Dalmasio di Jacopo
before ca. 1320 - 1373
Italian
Unknown
Egg tempera on wood panel
Framed: 9 1/8 × 25 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (23.2 × 64.8 × 6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
37.189.1
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1920s-ca.1935, (Giuseppe Bellesi, London, England)
1937, Lionello Venturi (Paris, France)
1937-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, pp. 48-49 (figs. 21a-21b). [as in the style of Vitale or Andrea da Bologna.]
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Art Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 67, no. 579. [as School of Bologna, 2nd half of 14th century.]
Suida, W. "Some Bolognese Trecento Paintings in America." Critica d'Arte, 33, no. 1 (May 1950): pp. 53-57.
Mostra della Pittura Bolognese del Trecento. Bologna, 1950, pp. 16, 29, cat. 29-32.
Coletti, L. "Sulla mostra della pittura bolognese del Trecento." Emporium 112, no. 162 (December 1950): pp. 243-260, p. 245.
Longhi, R. "La mostra del Trecento Bolognese." Paragone (Arte) 5 (May 1950): p. 11. [attributes quattrofoils to Dalmasio.]
Longhi, R. Guida alla mostra della pittura bolognese del trecento. Bologna, 1950, p. 16, nos. 29-32. [attributes panels to Dalmasio]
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 57.
Mellini, G.L. "Commento a 'Dalmasio.'" Arte illustrata 3, nos. 27-29 (March/May 1970): p. 49 (ill.).
Frederickson, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp. 63, 411, 579. [as St. John the Baptist; School of Bologna.]
Castagnoli, P.G. Pittura bolognese del '300; scritti di Francesco Arcangeli. Bologna, 1978, pp. 96-98 (ill.).
Bellosi, L. Buffalmacco e il Trionfo della morte. Turin, 1974, p. 84.
Strehlke, C.B. Italian Paintings, 1250-14-50, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2004, pp. 106-111.
Volpe, A. "Frammenti di un'allegoria agostiniana: Quattro 'Filosofi' di Dalmasio." Paragone (Arte) 647 (2004): pp. 3-19.
Medica, Massimo, ed. Giotto e le arti a Bologna al tempo di Bertrando del Poggetto. Exh. cat., Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna. Milan, 2005, pp. 176; 178; 179 (ill.).
Kanter, Laurence and John Marciari. Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 2010, p. 52 (fig. 2).
Kennedy, Trinita, ed. Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City. Exh. cat., Frist Art Museum. Nashville, 2021, pp. 65; 67; 89; cat. 53 (ill.).
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Dalmasio di Jacopo, Saint John the Baptist, between 1370 and 1377, egg tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 37.189.1.
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