The Crucifixion

Probably a member of the Altieri family, Rome [based on a seal on the back of the painting

Raleight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Reunited: Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece, September 10, 2016-March 5, 2017; Portland Art Museum, March 26-Septmber 10, 2017.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, March-April, 1956, as Allegretto Nuzi (no cat.)

Federico Zeri, “Note su quadri italiani all’estero,” Bolletino d’arte 43 (1949), pp. 21-30, ill. (reprinted in Federico Zeri: Diario Marchigino, 1948-1988, Turin, 2000, pp,. 56-59, ill.)

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane de Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 343

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 92, as Allegretto Nuzi

William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpublished manuscript [1932], Archives, Art Institute of Chicago, n. pag.

Chicago, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 3, as Allegretto Nuzi.

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]

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 399.

Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America, Milan, 1931, pl. XC.

sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1924 [letter of June 3, 1924 from Kleinberger to Ryerson in AIC archives]

sold American Art Association, New York, January 23, 1918, no. 41, ill., for $1,750 to S. Bourgeois, Paris, but returned it to Kleinberger, March 11, 1918

Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1918-24

New York, F. Kleinberger Gallelries, Italian Primitives, 1917, no. 71, as Allegretto Nuzi.

sold by Lehman to Kleinberger, New York, 1916 [this and following information are from Kleinberger records, European Painting Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art]

Mojmír Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel Painting and Miniature Painting, Part 1, Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes, Prague, 1998, pp. 294, no. Gg49; 377, no. Jb13b; 480, no. L29d.

Joan Isobel Friedman, “Nuzi, Allegretto” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 23, London, 1996, pp. 323-4.

Giampiero Donnini, “A proposito di Francescuccio Ghissi,” Arte cristiana, 84 (1996), p. 13.

see Lloyd 1993, p. 109, n. 2]. Philip Lehman, New York

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 107-110, ill.

Pietro Zampetti and Giampiero Donnini, Gentile e il pittori di Fabriano, Florence, 1992, p. 24.

John Pope-Hennessy with Laurence B. Kanter, The Robert Lehman Collection, vol. 1, Italian Paintings, New York, 1987, p. 60, under no. 28.

Keith Christiansen, “Fourteenth-Century Altarpieces, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 40, no. 1 (1982), pp. 46-9, fig. 45.

Federico Zeri with the assistance of Elizabeth E. Gardner, Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Mueum of Art. Sienese and Central Italian Schools, New York, 1980, pp. 17-18.

Federico Zeri, “Un ipotesi sui rapporti tra Allegretto Nuzi e Francescuccio Ghissi,” Antichità viva 14, no. 5 (1975), p. 6.

Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani,dall’ XI al XX secolo, vol. 1, 1972, pp. 80, 82.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1, London, 1968, p. 302.

L. Vertova, “What Goes with What?” Burlington Magazine 109 (1967), p. 671.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Italian Schools XIII-XV Century, London, 1966, p. 76.