Scene from the Life of a Female Saint, 15th century

  • Antonio Vivarini, Italian, ca. 1415-1484

Paint on wood panel

  • Unframed: 14 3/8 × 10 1/4 × 1/2 inches (36.5 × 26 × 1.3 cm)
  • 17 × 13 7/8 × 1 inches (43.2 × 35.2 × 2.5 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

29.318

by 1929, (Gustavo Volterra, Florence, Italy)

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

Heil, W. "A Venetian Predella Painting," Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 3 (December 1929): pp. 39-40, (repr.). Heil, W. ed. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 239, (repr.). Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 200 [as Francesco de'Franceschi]. Berenson, B. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 172 [as Francesco de'Franceschi]. Pudelko, G. "Ein Petrus-Martyr-Altar des Antonio Vivarini," Pantheon, vol. 20 (September 1937): pp. 283-86, esp. pp. 284-285, (fig. 5). Thieme-Becker. "Antonio Vivarini." In Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 34. Leipzig, 1940, pp. 445-49, esp. p. 446 [entry by B. Fleischmann; cited in association with the S. Monica altarpiece, S. Stefano, Venice]. Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 140, no. 239. Longhi, R. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946, p. 50, note 27. Vivarini, A. "La Conversione del Marito di Saint Monica," Arte Veneta, Annata II (1948): p. 18, (repr.). Fiocca, G. "Le pitture venete del Castello di Konopiste," Arte Veneta, vol. 2 (1948): p. 19. Zeri, F. "Un pannello della pala di Santa Monica di Antonio Vivarini," Paragone-Arte, vol. 19 (1951): pp. 46-47. Coletti, L. Pittura veneta del Quattrocento. Novara, 1953, p. 29, pl. 52 & 52a. Moschini Marconi, S. Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia: Opere d'arte dei secoli XIV e XV. Rome, 1955, p. 35. Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 79 [as Francesco de'Franceschi]. Catalogue of the Lee Collection. Courtauld Institute of Art. London, 1958, pp. 4-5. Pallucchini, R. I Vivarini: Antonio. Bartolomeo, Alvise Venice, 1962, pp. 26, 97, (fig. 13). Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 112. Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 211 [as "S. Monica converting her husband"]. Kaftal, G. Iconography of the Saints in the Painting of North East Italy. Florence, 1978, col. 756, (fig. 977) [from life of S. Monica]. La Spezia, Museo Civico Amadeo Lia, Dipinti, La Spezia, 1997, p. 356, (repr. fig. c) [in cat. no. 163, pp. 354-356, entry by Andrea G. De Marchi].

Antonio Vivarini, Scene from the Life of a Female Saint, 15th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.318.