Saint John the Baptist

15th century

Niccolo di Pietro Veneziano Italian, active 1394-1430

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Title Saint John the Baptist

Artwork Date 15th century

Artist Niccolo di Pietro Veneziano

Life Dates active 1394-1430

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 Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 30 3/8 × 11 3/8 × 1 7/8 inches (77.2 × 28.9 × 4.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of P. de Boer

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. 37.153

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(Gallery P. de Boer, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 8 (1938): p. 66, (repr.) [as Lorenzo da San Severino].

Sandberg Vavala, E. "Niccolò di Pietro Veneziano," Art Quarterly, vol. 2 (Autumn 1939): pp. 286-87, (fig. 1).

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting, Guide VI. 1944, p. 45, no. 20.

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 96-97, no. 661.

Frederickson, B. & F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 150.

Rossi, F. Il Trecento: Umbria, Marche Italia du Nord (Catalogo della Pinacoteca Vaticana). Vatican City, 1994, vol. 3, pp. 81-85 [cited under cat. 24], (repr.).

De Marchi, A. "Ritorno a Nicolò di Pietro," Nuovi Studi, 3, II (1997): pp. 5-24 [to check].

Fioritura tardogitica nelle Marche. Exh. cat., Palazzo Ducale. Urbino, 1998, p. 219 [entry by Claudio Giardini; as by Nicolò di Pietro and as part of a larger polyptic].

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