Saint Thomas Aquinas

between 1370 and 1377

Dalmasio di Jacopo Italian, before ca. 1320 - 1373

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Title Saint Thomas Aquinas

Artwork Date between 1370 and 1377

Artist Dalmasio di Jacopo

Life Dates before ca. 1320 - 1373

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 Egg tempera on wood panel

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Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

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. 37.189.2

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Provenance

1920s, (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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Published References

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, pp. 48-49 (fig. 21a).

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): p. 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.]

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 57. [as St. Dominic.]

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, 390. [as possibly St. Dominic; 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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Credit Line for Reproduction

Dalmasio di Jacopo, Saint Thomas Aquinas, between 1370 and 1377, egg tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 37.189.2.