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 & CountiesComplianceResourcesCase Studies

Resources

DocumentationHelp CenterBlog

Company

About UsCareersNewsContact Us

© 2026 Art Trackers LLC. All rights reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceAccessibility
    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Upper Part of a Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament
    Isaia da Pisa. Upper Part of a Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament, 1461/63. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001839

    Public data from the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn more

    Upper Part of a Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament

    by Isaia da Pisa

    Provenance

    Part of the Altar of the Holy Sacrament commissioned by Cardinal Guillaume d’Estouteville for the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome [Middeldorf 1944]; dismantled by 1573 [see Caglioti 1998]. Possibly Émile Molinier, Paris (died 1906) [according to Middeldorf 1944 and 1980, though the basis for this statement is unclear]. Alessandro Imbert, Rome, by 1920 [according to note added to the incoming receipt of Jan. 28, 1938 in registrar's office]; sold to Potter Palmer, II and Pauline Kohlsaat Palmer, Chicago, 1920 [see receipt cited above]; given by them to the Art Institute, 1938.

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report of the Year 1938, 33, 4 (1939), pl. 9. Meyric R. Rogers, “The Robert Allerton Wing,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 34 (1940), pp. 5-6. Ulrich Middeldorf, “The Tabernacle of S. Maria Maggiore,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 38, 1 (1944), pp. 6–10; reprinted Ulrich Middeldorf, Raccolta di Scritti, that is Collected Writings II: 1939–1973, Specimen 4 (Florence, 1980), pp. 55–59. Valentino Martinelli, "Donatello e Michelozzo a Roma (II)," Commentari, 9 (1958), p. 21 n. 34. Hans Caspary, “Ancora sui tabernacoli eucaristici del Quattrocento,”Antichità viva, 3, 5 (1964), pp. 29-30, 35. Hans Caspary, Das Sakramentstabernakel in Italien bis zum Konzil von Trient. Gestalt, Ikonographie und Symbolik, kultische Funktion (Munich, 1964), pp. 32-33, 35, 38-39, 41, 136 n. 79, 198 ( ill.). Allen Wardwell and Mildred Davison, “Three Centuries of the Decorative Arts in Italy,” Apollo 84 (1966), pp. 179-180, fig. 2. Hanno-Walter Kruft and Magne Malmanger, “Der Triumphbogen Alfonsos in Neapel. Das Monument und seine politische Bedeutung,” Institutum Romanum Norvegiae Acta 6 (1975), pp. 270-271, fig. 116. Francesco Negri Arnoldi, "Isaia da Pisa e Pellegrino da Viterbo" in Il Quattrocento a Viterbo, exh. cat. (Viterbo, Museo Civico, 1983), pp. 338, 340 n. 34. Meredith Jane Gill, “A French Maecenas in the Roman Quattrocento: The Patronage of Guillaume d’Estouteville (1439-1483),” PhD. dissertation, Princeton University, 1992, pp. 87, 127-28 n. 11, figs. 3-5. Sible de Blaauw, Cultus et Decor. Liturgia e architettura nella Roma tardoantica e medieval: Basilica Salvatoris, Sanctae Mariae, Sancti Petri (Vatican City, 1994), p. 372. Carlo La Bella, “Scultori nella Roma di Pio II (1458-1464). Considerazioni su Isaia da Pisa, Mino da Fiesole e Paolo Romano,” Studi Romani 43 (1995), pp. 29-30. "Isaia da Pisa" in The Dictionary of Art, vol. 16 (London, 1996), p. 67. Francesco Cagliotti, “Su Isaia da Pisa: Due ‘Angeli reggicandelabro’ in Santa Sabina all'Aventino e l’altare eucaristico del Cardinal d’Estouteville per Santa Maria Maggiore,” Prospettiva, nos. 89-90 (1998), pp. 129, 130, 132-4, 137, 139, 146, 148-52, figs. 15, 21 a-c. Francesco Caglioti, “Un medaglione neroniano d’Isaia da Pisa a Philadelphia e due altre aggiunte al catalogo dello scultore” in Arte collezionismo conservazione: Scritti in onore di Marco Chiarini, ed. Miles L. Chappell, Mario Di Giampaolo, Serena Padovani (Florence, 2004), p. 162, fig. 4. Francesco Caglioti, “Altari eucaristici scolpiti del primo Rinascimento: qualche caso maggiore” in Lo Spazio e il culto. Relazioni tra edificio ecclesiale e uso liturgico dal XV al XVI secolo, ed. Jörg Stabenow (Venice 2006), p. 82. Carlo La Bella, “Isaia da Pisa, Mino da Fiesole e gli scultori toscani” in Il ‘400 a Roma. La rinascita delle arti da Donatello a Perugino, ed. Maria Grazia Bernardini and Marco Bussagli, vol. 1, exh. cat. Museo del Corso, Rome (Milan, 2008), p. 197. .

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Isaia da Pisa (Italian, active 1428–64)
    Date
    1461/63
    Medium
    Marble
    Dimensions
    88.3 × 116.8 cm (34 3/4 × 46 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    relief
    Style
    15th century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
    Accession no.
    1938.167

    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.

    • 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-00001839

    Powered by Art Trackers