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Saint Peter Martyr Exorcizing a Woman Possessed by a Devil
Publications
Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 17 (The Hague, 1935), p. 49. Georg Pudelko, “Ein Petrus-Martyr-Altar des Antonio Vivarini,” Pantheon 20 (1937), p. 284, ill. Margaretta M. Salinger, “A Gift of Two Italian Paintings,” The Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 33 (1938), pp. 8–10. Giuseppe Fiocco, “Le pitture venete del Castello di Konopiste,” Arte veneta 11 (1948), p. 20, ill. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 200, pl. 84. Rodolfo Pallucchini, I Vivarini (Venice, 1962), pp. 27, 98, no. 20, fig. 20. Rodolfo Pallucchini, “Giunte ai Vivarini,” Arte veneta 21 (1967), p. 200. Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century (London, 1968), p. 31, under no. K1116. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 211, 444, 572. Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner, Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Venetian School (New York, 1973), p. 89. George Kaftal with Fabio Bisogni, Saints in Italian Art: Iconography of the Saints in the Painting of North East Italy (Florence, 1978), no. 236, col. 845. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie, Catalogue of Paintings, 13th–18th Century, 2d ed. (Berlin-Dahlem, 1978), p. 470, under nos. 66, 67. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 295–99, ill. Peter Humfrey, The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice (New Haven and London, 1993), pp. 166-67, 327 n. 93, 331 n. 7. Ian Holgate, “The Vivarini Workshop and Its Patrons, c. 1430–c.1450" (Ph.D. diss., University of St. Andrews, 1999), pp. 54–57, 288, pls. 29–31. Finarte, Milan, Dipinti antichi, 18 December 2003, under no. 69. Rosa Giorgi, Angels and Demons in Art: A Guide to Imagery (Los Angeles, 2005), p. 81, ill. Jacques de Vorgaine, Théodore de Wyzewa, and Franco Cardini, La légende dorée (Paris, 2009), p. 237, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Antonio Vivarini (Italian, about 1415–1476/84)
- Date
- c. 1450
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 54.8 × 35.5 cm (21 9/16 × 14 in.); Framed: 61.6 × 41.3 cm (24 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- tempera
- Style
- 15th century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1983.384
Provenance
Paolo Paolini, Rome; sold American Art Association, New York, December 10–11, 1924, no. 90, as Quirizio da Murano, to George F. Harding, Jr. [according to Harding Museum papers in the Art Institute archives]; George F. Harding , Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, from 1924; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, no 28, ill., withdrawn; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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