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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Saint Catherine of Siena by Lo Spagna
    Lo Spagna. Saint Catherine of Siena, 1510–15. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000839

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    Saint Catherine of Siena

    by Lo Spagna

    Exhibition history

    London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, A Collection of Pictures of the Umbrian School, 1910, no. 38. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 119.

    Publications

    Edward W. Gregory, “Earl Brownlow’s Collection of Pictures at Ashridge Park,” Connoisseur 13, 53 (1906), pp. 4–7, ill. Bernard Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 2d ed. (New York and London, 1909), p. 253. Phillips, Daily Telegraph (December 7, 1909). Umberto Gnoli, “La pittura Umbra alla Mostra di Burlington Club,” Rassegna d’arte umbra 1 (1910), pp. 52–53. E. Harter, “Sei quadri dello Spagna,” Rassegna d’arte 14 (1914), pp. 59–60, ill. H. G. T. Cannons, ed., Art Prices Current: 1922–1923 (London, 1923), p. 205, no. 4422. Umberto Gnoli, Pittori e miniatori nell’Umbria (Spoleto, 1923), pp. 165–66. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 160, no. 2077. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 544. William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, (unpub. MS, 1932, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago), n. p. Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 14 (The Hague, 1933), pp. 458–60, fig. 297, p. 463. Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 467. F. Mason Perkins in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 31 (Leipzig, 1937), p. 323. Kate Lancaster Brewster, “The Ryerson Gift to The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine of Art 31, 2 (1938), p. 97. “Exhibition of the Ryerson Gift,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 32 (1938), p. 3, ill. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 2d ed., vol. 8 (Paris, 1960), p. 41. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 422. 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, vol. 1 (London, 1968), p. 412. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 253, 283, ill. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 191, 386, 571. Dizionario enciclopedio Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, dall’XI al XX secolo vol. 10 (Turin, 1975), p. 386. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 3d ed., vol. 9 (Paris, 1976), p. 732. M. Levi d’Ancona, The Garden of the Renaissance: Botanical Symbolism in Italian Painting (Florence, 1977), p. 129, under no. 90. John Fleming, “Art Dealing in the Risorgimento, III,” Burlington Magazine 121 (1979), p. 500 n. 57. Fausta Gualdi Sabatini, Giovanni di Pietro detto Lo Spagna (Spoleto, 1984), vol. 1, pp. 57, 168, 193–94, no. 39, p. 195, under no. 41, vol. 2, pl. 73. Lidia Bianchi and Diega Giunta, Iconografia di S. Caterina da Siena (Rome, 1988), pp. 380–81, no. 354. Filippo Todini, La pittura umbra dal duecento al primo cinquecento vol. 1 (Milan, 1989), p. 313. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 219–21, ill. Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (New York, 1997), p. 118.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Lo Spagna (Giovanni di Pietro; Italian, active 1504–28)
    Date
    1510–15
    Medium
    Tempera and oil on panel
    Dimensions
    107.8 × 50.3 cm (42 1/2 × 19 3/4 in.); Framed: 118.2 × 61.6 × 10.2 cm (46 1/2 × 24 1/4 × 4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    tempera
    Style
    sixteenth century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1937.1008

    Provenance

    Possibly William Blundell Spence, Florence, in 1857 and possibly sold by him to Lady Marianne Margaret Compton, Viscountess Alford (d. 1888), 1857 [Ellis Waterhouse suggested that it could have been the “St. Catherine by Pinturicchio” sold by Spence to Lady Marianne Margaret Compton and mentioned in a letter from Spence to Lady Waldegrave dated April 14, 1857, Strachie MSS DD/SH 285 WW 52/1, Somerset Record Office, Taunton, according to Fleming 1979]. Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, third Earl Brownlow (d. 1921), Ashridge Park, Berkhamsted [he may have inherited it from his mother, Lady Marianne Margaret Compton, Viscountess Alford if it was the picture referred to above; it was certainly in Brownlow’s possession by 1906, see Gregory 1906]; sold by his executors, Christie’s, London, May 4, 1923, no. 50 (ill.), to Agnew’s for ₤924 [according to Cannons 1923]; sold by Agnew’s, London, to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1923 [according to Agnew’s invoice, Art Institute archives]; intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1924; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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