ART TRACKERSConnecting fine art to people
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServicesProcurement
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServicesProcurement
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Art Trackers logo
ART TRACKERS
Connecting fine art to people

Connecting fine art to people. Preserving cultural legacy through technology.

Platform

FeaturesHow It WorksSecurityIntegrations

Government

For Cities & CountiesCompliance

Resources

DocumentationHelp CenterBlog

Company

About UsCareersNewsContact Us

© 2026 Art Trackers LLC. All rights reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceAccessibility
    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Virgin and Child Enthroned by Girolamo da Santacroce
    Girolamo da Santacroce. Virgin and Child Enthroned, 1516. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000686

    Public data from the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn more

    Virgin and Child Enthroned

    by Girolamo da Santacroce

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right: M.D.XVI.ADI.XX/ IIII OTVBRIO/IHERONIMO.DA.SATA + (on the step of the throne)

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, South Side Community Art Center, Exhibition of Religious Art, April 1942, no. 1.

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 159, no. 2025. Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago” (unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago), pp. 53–55. W. H., “Some Recently Acquired Pictures of the Venetian School,” Bulletin of The Detroit Institute of Art 8, 5 (1927), p. 51. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 180. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 507. William R. Valentiner, “Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson” (unpub. MS [1932], Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago), n. p. G. Gombosi, “Santacroce, Girolamo,” in Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 29 (Leipzig, 1935), p. 423. Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 436. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 154, pl. 574. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 410. Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 517. Fritz Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani (Venice, 1962), vol. 1, pp. 39, 161, no. 136 (l); vol. 2, fig. 647. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 93, 336, 571. Bruno Della Chiesa and Edi Baccheschi,” “I pittori da Santa Croce,” in I pittori bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX secolo: Il cinquecento, vol. 2 (Bergamo, 1976), p. 29, no. 10, p. 58, fig. 3. Ellis Waterhouse, “Earlier Paintings in the Earlier Years of the Art Institute: The Role of the Private Collectors,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 10 (1983), p. 89. Bert W. Meijer, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Teyler Museum in Haarlem (Milan, 1984), p. 104. Terisio Pignatti, Five Centuries of Italian Painting, 1300–1800: From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (Houston, 1985), p. 83. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 128–130, ill. Giovanni Godi and Corrado Mingardi, Le collezioni d’arte della Cassa di risparmio di Parma e Piacenza (Parma, 1994), p. 35, under no. 20. Mauro Lucco, La pittura nel Veneto (Milan, 1996), p. 127 n. 293. Maria Elisa Avagnina, Margaret Binotto, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, Pinacoteca civica di Vicenza: catalogo scientifico delle collezioni, vol. 1 (Milan, Silvana, Vicenza, 2003), p. 239, under no. 87.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Girolamo da Santacroce (Italian, born 1480-85, died 1556)
    Date
    1516
    Medium
    Tempera and oil (?) on panel, transferred to canvas
    Dimensions
    86.9 × 44.7 cm (34 1/4 × 17 5/8 in.); Framed : 115.6 × 74.3 × 7.7 cm (45 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 3 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    tempera
    Style
    16th Century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1008

    Provenance

    James Kerr-Lawson, Florence, by 1910; sold by Kerr-Lawson to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1910 [see letter from Kerr-Lawson to Ryerson dated May 10, 1910 and invoice dated June 14, 1910, in curatorial files]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1923 [according to registrar’s records]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

    More by Girolamo da Santacroce in museum collections

    • The Presentation in the Temple by Girolamo da Santacroce

      The Presentation in the Temple

      Girolamo da Santacroce

      n.d. · Drawing

      Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006082

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

    Source: The Art Institute of Chicago Open Access (CC0)

    • View this work at the Art Institute of Chicago
    • The Art Institute of Chicago: open-access terms

    Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

    Open-access museum record · AT-00000686

    Powered by Art Trackers