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    The Temptation of Saint Jerome
    Giorgio Vasari. The Temptation of Saint Jerome, 1541–48. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001474

    The Temptation of Saint Jerome

    by Giorgio Vasari

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Miss M. M. Webber until 1963; sold Sotheby’s, London, July 3, 1963, no. 89 (ill.) to Patch for £3800 [according to letter of October 10, 2000, from Camilla Harris, Sotheby’s, who also identified Patch as Weitzner]; Julius Weitzner, London; purchased by the Art Institute through Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection Fund, 1964

    Exhibition history

    University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Art Gallery, The Age of Vasari, 1970, no. P18. The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.

    Publications

    John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, p. 254. C. Monbeig-Goguel, "Giorgio Vasari et son temps," Revue de l'art no. 14 (1971), p. 108. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp. 209, 409, 571. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 3d ed., vol. 10, 1976, p. 404. Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, dall' XI al XX secolo, vol. 11, Turin, 1976, p. 258. A.M. Bracciante, Giorgio Vasari, exh. cat., Arezzo, Casa Vasari, 1981, sec. 4, p. 80, under no. 11. D. Clark, "Vasari's Temptation of St. Jerome Paintings: Artifacts of his Camaldoli Crisis," Studies in Iconography 10 (1984-86), pp. 102, 106, 108, 110, 112, 115, n. 25, 117, n. 48, fig. 2 (mislabeled). C.M. Brown, "'Verzeichnis etlicher Antiquitäten, so von Herrn Kardinal von Trient überschickt worden': Paintings and Antiquities from the Roman Collection of Bishop Gerolamo Garimberto Offered to Duke Albrecht Vth of Bavaria in 1576, " Xenia 10 (1985), pp. 60, 64, 69-70 n. 18. L. Corti, Vasari: Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1989, p. 38, under no. 21. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1993, pp. 262-267 (ill.). Umberto Baldini, Giorgio Vasari, Florence, 1994, p. 162.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)
    Date
    1541–48
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    166.5 × 121.9 cm (65 1/2 × 48 in.); Framed: 203.9 × 161.3 × 15.3 cm (80 1/4 × 63 1/2 × 6 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on panel
    Style
    sixteenth century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1964.64

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