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    The Descent from the Cross
    Bernardino Butinone. The Descent from the Cross, c. 1485. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000684

    The Descent from the Cross

    by Bernardino Butinone

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Count de Malherbe, Paris, by 1921 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris and New York, in 1921 [according to Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold by Kleinberger to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1927; on loan to the Art Institute from 1927; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Lotos Club, 1927, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 83. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 25.

    Publications

    D. C. Rich, “Three Paintings of the Quattrocentro,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 21 (1921), pp. 86-88, ill. E. S. Siple, “Art in America: The Art Institute of Chicago − The Ryerson Collection,” Burlington Magazine 51 (1927), pp. 240-241, pl. I. Mario Salmi, “Bernardino Butinone ― I,” Dedalo 10 (1929), pp. 347, 351. Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America, 1931, pls. CCCXXV–CCCXXVI. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 179, nos. 803.27, 804.27. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 121. “Ryerson Makes Princely Bequest to The Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Digest 6, 20 (1932), p. 3, ill. William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag. Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 105. Roberto Longhi, “Le arti,” in J. De Blasi, ed. Romanità e Germanesimo (Florence, 1941), ill. opp. p. 305; reprinted in Opere complete di Roberto Longhi, vol. 9 (Florence, 1979), pl. 39b. Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), p. 25. Martin Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools (London, 1951), p. 102, under no. 3336; rev. ed. 1961, p. 132, under no. 3336 C. Baroni and S. Samek Ludovici, La pittura lombarda del quattrocento (Messina and Florence, 1952), pp. 235, 238-39. Federico Zeri, “Two Contributions to Lombard Quattrocento Painting,” Burlington Magazine 97 (1955), p. 77 n 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 63-64. Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 517. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools (London, 1968), vol. 1, p. 69, vol. 3, pl. 1945. Elvira Cassa Salvi, Butinone e Zenale (Maestri del colore 230) (Milan, 1966), n. p. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 38, 275, 295, 571. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, rev. ed., London, 1977, p. 30. Hugh Brigstocke, Italian and Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 25-26. Mauro Natale in Mina Gregori, ed., Pittura tra Adda e Serio: Lodi, Treviglio, Caravaggio, Crema (Milan, 1987), p. 165. A[ngelo] O[ttolini], “Butinone, Bernardino” in Federico Zeri, ed., La pittura in Italia: Il quattrocento (Milan, 1987), p. 594. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993) , pp. 53-58, ill. Christie’s, New York, Important and Fine Old Master Paintings, May 19, 1993, under no. 30. Andrea Bacchi in Pittura Lombarda 1450–1650, ed. Alessandro Morandotti, exh. cat., Campagnia di Belle Arti (Milan, 1994), pp. 16–25, fig. 12. Francesco Rossi, “Bernardino Butinone. La Critica,” in J. Shell, F. Rossi and P. De Vecchi, Butinone e Zenale [extract from I Pittori Bergamaschi] (Bergamo, 1994), pp. 174, 180, 184–5, 189, 218–219, no. 5, ill., pp. 206, 258.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Bernardino Butinone (Italian, c. 1450-before 1510)
    Date
    c. 1485
    Medium
    Tempera on panel
    Dimensions
    26 × 20.4 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Framed: 30.8 × 25.8 × 7.7 cm (12 1/8 × 10 1/8 × 3 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    tempera
    Style
    15th century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1004

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