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Panel from a cassone: Battle of Cascina,
1460s
attributed to Master of Anghiari, Italian, 15th century
y1945-204
This is a cassone panel, the decoration for the long side of a decorated chest (the modern term “cassone” comes from the Italian word for chest). These chests were made in pairs, mainly in Florence, for married couples setting up households. Their decoration was based on works by authors like Bocaccio or Petrarch, or, as here, historical subjects. This subject has been described as the Battle of Cascina, a fourteenth-century battle in which Florentine troops, bathing in the Arno River, were surprised by Pisan forces yet carried the day. This unidentified artist was a specialist in cassone panels. Named “Anghiari Master” by Paul Schubring in his corpus of such paintings (1915), he is now also known as the Master of Marradi.
Information
Title
Panel from a cassone: Battle of Cascina
Dates
1460s
Maker
attributed to Master of Anghiari
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
53.5 x 176.5 cm (21 1/16 x 69 1/2 in.)
frame: 54 x 176.8 x 4.4 cm (21 1/4 x 69 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Susan D. Bliss
Object Number
y1945-204
Place Depicted
Cascina, Tuscany
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Susan D. Bliss; 1945 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Thomas E. Kirby, Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand, (New York: Press of J.J. Little & Co., 1903)., no. 1200
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 4, no. 2 (Autumn, 1945): p. 11-12., p. 12 [as Five sketches by W.S. Mount}]
