From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Saint Benedict and Saint Lucilla (above: Saint Daniel)

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1915.12.A
People: Spinello Aretino, Italian (1350/52 - 1410)
Title: Saint Benedict and Saint Lucilla (above: Saint Daniel)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1385
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/231992

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: sight: 139.5 x 86.4 cm (54 15/16 x 34 in.)
frame: 193.9 x 95.8 x 12 cm (76 5/16 x 37 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year: 1915
Object Number: 1915.12.A
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), pp. 46-54

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 191

Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 130, 291, repr. b/w cat. no. 516

Hiltrud Kier and Frank Günter Zehnder, Lust und Verlust II: Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860, Wienand Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1998), no. 83, p. 553, repr. in b/w

Michelle O'Malley, The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2005), pp. 224-225, repr. as fig. 105

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