Apollo and the Muses

15th or 16th century

Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta Italian, 1436-1518

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Title Apollo and the Muses

Artwork Date 15th or 16th century

Artist Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta

Life Dates 1436-1518

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: 12 1/2 × 42 inches (31.8 × 106.7 cm) Framed: 18 1/4 × 47 3/8 × 2 3/8 inches (46.4 × 120.3 × 6 cm)

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. 40.128

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Provenance

by 1862, collection of Johann Anton Ramboux (Cologne, Germany)

May 23, 1867, J.A. Ramboux auction, part V, sold by (J.M. Heberle/Lempertz, Cologne, Germany), lot 386

until 1940, (Schnittjer Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ramboux, J.A. Katalog der Gemälde alter italienischen Meister in der Sammlung des Conservator J.A. Ramboux. Cologne, 1862, p. 66, cat. 386.

Richardson, E.P. "Apollo and the Muses by Neroccio," Bulletin of the DIA, 24, no. 2 (1944): no. 2, p. 19, (repr.) [as by Neroccio de' Landi].

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 19, no. 660 [as Neroccio de'Landi].

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1958, p. 35, no. 52 [as by Neroccio di Landi (1447–1500)].

Coor, G. "Quattrocento-gemälde aus der Sammlung Ramboux," Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, vol. 21 (1959): p. 91, (fig. 37).

Coor, G. Neroccio de' Landi 1447-1500. Camden, 1961, pp. 119, 201, cat. 3, (fig. 139) [as Benvenuto di Giovanni].

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 80.

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Darrell D. Davisson. Benvenuto di Giovanni Girolamo di Benvenuto: Their Altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and A Summary Catalogue of Their Paintings in America. Malibu, 1966, p. 24; p. 35; (fig. 15) (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Central Italian and North Italian schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 40 [as "ruined, restored, repainted."]

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 25. [as by Benvenuto di Giovanni].

Schröter, E. Die Ikonographie des Themas Parnass vor Raffael. In Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, vol. 6. Hildesheim, 1977, pp. 275-6, (ill. 56).

Frings, Gabriele. Giorgiones Ländliches Konzert: Darstellung der Musik als künstlerisches Programm in der venezianischen Malerei der Renaissance. Berlin, 1999, pp. 99-100, no. 239; pp. 107, 121, 136-137, 202, pl. 48 (ill.).

Bandera, Maria Cristina. Bevenuto di Giovanni. Milan, 1999, pp. 44-46 (ill.); p. 224, no. 24.

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