
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001900One of the Set of the Four Evangelists: Mark
Provenance
Adolph Loewi, Venice, by 1939 [according to Kay Robertson, daughter of Adolph Loewi, telephone conversation, November 22, 2002, notes in curatorial file]; Adolph Loewi, Inc., Los Angeles, 1939 [according to Robertson conversation cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1953.
Exhibition history
Trent, Castello del Buonconsiglio, "La bellissima maniera, Alessandro Vittoria e la scultura del Cinquecento," 25 June – 26 September 1999, no. 82.
Publications
Leo Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance (Vienna, 1921), pp. 478–79, figs. 503–06. Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions," Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47, 4 (1953), pp. 70–71. Hans Huth, "Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA," Miscellanea bibliothecae hertzianae, edited by Leo Bruhns, Franz Graf, Wolff Metternich, and Ludwig Schudt, Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana 16 (1961), p. 518. New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., The Elms (June 27, 1962), p. 39, no. 189. Georges S. Salmann, "First Stages in Starting a Collection of Bronzes," Connoisseur 160, 643 (1965), p. 20, fig. 6. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 225. Anne Michael, Four Terracotta Statuettes Attributed to Alessandro Vittoria in the Art Institute of Chicago, master’s thesis (University of Chicago, 1977), figs. 1–8, 30. Thomas E. Norton, 100 Years of Collecting in America: The Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet (New York, 1984), p. 172 (ill.). Claudia Kryza-Gersch, "New Light on Nicolò Roccatagliata and His Son Sebastian Nicolini," Nuovi Studi 5 (1998), p. 120, fig. 224.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alessandro Vittoria (Italian, 1525–1608)
- Date
- Modeled c. 1580
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- H.: 60 cm (23 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- sixteenth century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1953.329
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