Object details
Accession number
P15e1
Primary Creator
Michele Giambono
(active 1420 - 1462)
Full title
A Bishop Saint
Creation Date
1420-1452
Provenance
Possibly from an altarpiece in Padua.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Michelangelo Guggenheim for 780 lire on 28 September 1897 while in Venice with Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian. (as Vivarini)
Marks
Inscribed (upper left): M[?]vro [Maurus]
Dimensions
38.8 x 28.9 cm (15 1/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Tempera with oil glazes on pine panel
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Early Italian Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 9. (as attributed to Giacomo Bello)
Bernard Berenson. Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century (New York, 1916), pp. 5, 23. (as Michele Giambono, with a suggested reconstruction of the altarpiece)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 160. (as Michele Giambono)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 94. (as Michele Giambono)
Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà. "The Reconstruction of a Polyptych by Michele Giambono." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 10 (1947), pp. 20-26, fig. 14a.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 34 (25 Apr. 1965), p. 2. (as Michele Giambono)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 101-103. (as Michele Giambono, part of an altarpiece from Padua)
Norman E. Land. "A New Panel by Michel Giambono and a Reconstructed Altar-piece." Apollo (March, 1984), pp. 160-65, fig. 8. (as Michele Giambono)
Cristina Pesaro. "Michele Giambono." Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte, no. 18 (1992), pp. 23, 31, fig 29. (as Michele Giambono)
Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at Villa I Tatti (Milan, 2015), pp. 303-305, figs. 41.4, 41.5. (as Michele Giambono; as "Saint Maurus")
Tiziana Franco in Matteo Ceriana and Valeria Poletto. Il Paradiso riconquistato, trame d'oro e colore nella pittura di Michele Giambono. Exh. cat. (Venice: Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2016), pp. 21,159-60, fig. 8.
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