Object details
Accession number
F21c5
Primary Creator
Italian, Orvieto
Full title
Ceiling
Creation Date
about 1500
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner through Richard Norton (1872–1918), art historian and archaelogist, in Rome, November 1897 for 8,000 lire.
Dimensions
890 x 587 cm (350 3/8 x 231 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Painted wood
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
Dutch Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 13. (as Roman)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 168.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 191.
Betty Chamberlain. “Gothic Room” in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 40.
A. Hyatt Mayor. "Mrs. Gardner Comes to Call." Fenway Court (1972), p. 40.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 190.
Pieranna Cavalchini and Amanda Esteves-Kraus (eds.). Portrait (Boston, 2012), p. 47. (quoting the Diary of Willard T. Sears, 28 July 1901)
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