Object details
Object number
C28e18
Creator(s)
Attributed to
Giorgio da Anversa
(active Milan, 16th century)
Title
The Judgment of Solomon
Date
about 1544-1545
Medium
Pot metal glass and white glass with silver stain and sanguine
Dimensions
112.5 x 61 cm (44 5/16 x 24 in.)
Provenance
Milan Cathedral, Italy, the Old Testament window of the apse.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer A. Pickert, Nuremberg, for either 350 or 450 florins on 11 August 1875 (as German but origin unknown).
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.
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 256-57. (as the Judgment of Solomon, probably Swiss, early 16th century)
Giuseppe Marchini. "Vetri italiani in America." Arte in Europa. Scritti di storia dell' arte in onore di Edoardo Arslan (Milan, 1966), p. 433, fig. 289a. (as from Milan Cathedral, probably Northern European)
Madeline H. Caviness (ed.). Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass from New England Collections. Exh. cat. (Cambridge: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 1978), p. 99.
Catherine Pirina. "Stained Glass from Milan Cathedral in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1983), p. 36, fig. 12.
Madeline H. Caviness et al. Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collections: New England and New York. Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I. Studies in the History of Art 15. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1985), p. 43, ill.
Alan Chong and Giovanna De Appolonia. The Art of the Cross: Medieval and Renaissance Piety in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2001), pp. 18-19, 25 n.3.
Gallery
Chapel
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