Saint John the Baptist Preaching

ca. 1370

Lorenzo Veneziano Italian, active 1356-1372

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Artwork Date ca. 1370

Artist Lorenzo Veneziano

Life Dates active 1356-1372

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 on wood panel

Dimensions Overall: 11 1/2 × 11 11/16 × 1 1/16 inches (29.2 × 29.7 × 2.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of E. M. Sperling

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. 25.204

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private collection (possibly Germany, Austria, or Switzerland)

until 1925, (E.M. Sperling, New York, New York, USA)

1925-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 129 (ill.).

Sandberg-Vavalà, E. "A Contribution to the Study of Giovanni da Bologna." Art in America 19, no. 5 (August 1931): pp. 183-200, pp. 194-95 (fig. 4). [as early work by Giovanni da Bologna.]

Valentiner, W.R. Detroit Institute of Arts: Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 45 (fig. 19).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 80, no. 129. [as Lorenzo Veneziano.]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. I. London, 1957, p. 99. [as Lorenzo Veneziano.]

Pallucchini, R. La pittura veneziana del Trecento. Venice, 1964, p. 179. [as Marco di Paolo.]

An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the 13th and 14th Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, 1965, p. 31, cat. 40.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 68.

Muraro, M. Paolo da Venezia. University Park and London, 1970, pp. 136, 139. [as follower of Lorenzo Veneziano.]

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp. 245, 579. [as 14th century Venetian.]

De Marchi, Andrea. "Una tavola nella Narodna Galeria di Ljubjana e una proposta per Marco di Paolo Veneziano." In Il Gotico in Slovenia, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi [The Gothic in Slovenia: Proceedings of the International Studies Convention]. Ljubljana, 1995, pp. 244 (fig. 2), 245 and notes 17, 20-21.

Autour de Lorenzo Veneziano, Fragments de polyptyques vénitiens du XIVe siècle. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts. Tours, 2005 pp. 29, 43 note 49, 59, 62, 64 (fig. 73), 80 note 42; pp. 13-43; pp. 57-81.

Guarnieri, C. Lorenzo Veneziano. Milan, 2006, cat. 2.

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workshop of Lorenzo Veneziano, Saint John the Baptist Preaching, ca. 1370, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of E. M. Sperling, 25.204.