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Saint Francis,
1490s
Antonio Leonelli, Italian, Crevalcore, active 1478–before 1525
y1956-3
This panel depicts Saint Francis standing in a porphyry tomb, displaying the stigmata he received when, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in 1224, he experienced the vision of a six-winged seraph on a cross. These holy wounds, which correspond to those inflicted on Christ during the Crucifixion, underscore the connection between Saint Francis’s exemplary life of service and his status as alter Christus, or “another Christ.” The reverse of this panel features a fictive porphyry plaque, suggesting that the work was originally visible from all sides. The porphyry tomb and plaque have imperial connotations, alluding to Christ’s kingly nature.
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Title
Saint Francis
Dates
1490s
Maker
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
74.5 × 56 cm (29 5/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
frame: 90.5 × 71.8 × 3.5 cm (35 5/8 × 28 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1956-3
Place Made
Europe, Bologna
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Louis Fournier, Paris (until 1924 sale, Mending, Amsterdam, June 24, 1924, lot 10);
Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (in 1928; sold to Pani);
Alberto J. Pani, Mexico (1928-1942; sale, Kende, New York, December 17, 1942, lot 11);
Baron Cassel van Doorn, New York (until 1955; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, December 9 - 10, lot 44, to McFadden);
John H. McFadden (1955-1956; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, January 11, 1956, lot 7, to Princeton University Art Museum)
Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (in 1928; sold to Pani);
Alberto J. Pani, Mexico (1928-1942; sale, Kende, New York, December 17, 1942, lot 11);
Baron Cassel van Doorn, New York (until 1955; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, December 9 - 10, lot 44, to McFadden);
John H. McFadden (1955-1956; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, January 11, 1956, lot 7, to Princeton University Art Museum)
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- Alberto J. Pani, La segunda colección Pani de pinturas: catálogo descriptivo y comentado, (Mexico: Editorial Cvltvra, 1940)., p. 100f, no. 46
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Primitives and old masters, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch and Flemish schools...: the collection of Alberto J. Pani...unrestricted public auction, Thursday, December 17th..., (New York: Kende Galleries, 1942).
, no. 11 -
The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 45 (illus.) - Italian, Spanish and other primitive & renaissance works...from the estate of the late John H. McFadden, Jr. ... and other owners, public auction sale, Wednesday, January 11..., (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1956)., no. 7
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"News reports", College art journal 15, no. 4 (Summer, 1956): p. 361-369.
, p. 366 (illus.) - Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places: Venetian school, (New York: Phaidon Publishers, 1957). , p. 10
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 16, no. 1 (1957): p. 12-14., p. 12
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, I Vivarini: Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise, (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962)., p. 87
- Federico Zeri, "An addition to Antonio da Crevalcore", Burlington magazine 108, no. 761 (Aug., 1966)., p. 422ff
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 104
- E. James Mundy, "Franciscus alter Christus: the intercessory function of a late quattrocento panel", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 4-15., fig. 1, p. 5 (illus.); fig. 7, p. 9 (illus.); fig. 8, p. 10 (illus.); fig. 10, p. 12 (illlus.)
- Norman E. Land, "Two panels by Michele Giambono and some observations on St. Francis and the Man of Sorrows in fifteenth-century Venetian painting", Studies in iconography 6 (1980)., p. 29-41; p. 46, fig. 5
- Mauro Lucco, "La giovinezza del Pordenone (nouve riflessioni su cecchi studi", Giornata di studio per il Pordenone: Piacenza, S. Maria di Campagna 26 settembre 1981 / a cura di Paola Ceschi Lavagetto, (Piacenza: [publisher not identified], 1981)., p. 27, fig. 2
- John V. Fleming, From Bonaventure to Bellini: an essay in Franciscan exegesis, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982)., p. 136-39; p. 140, note 23
- John Steer, Alvise Vivarini, his art and influence, (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980)., p. 190, no. 74
- Vittorio Sgarbi, "A painter restored: Antonio da Crevalcore", FMR no. 12 (Jun., 1985)., p. 115-17; p. 116 (color illus.)
- Vittorio Sgarbi, Antonio da Crevalcore e la pittura ferrarese del Quattrocento a Bologna, (Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1985)., p. 93 (illus.); p. 105, no. 10
- Mauro Lucco, "La cultura figurativa Padana al tempo del Codice Hammer", in Carlo Pedretti, Leonardo, il Codice Hammer e la Mappa di Imola: arte e scienza a Bologna, in Emilia e Romagna nel primo Cinqucento, (Firenze: Giunti Barbèra, 1985)., p. 144, fig. 4
- Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, "Saint Francis reads a psalm: a two-sided processional panel," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 2 (1985): 32–35., pp. 32–33, figs. 1–2
- E. James Mundy, "Porphyry and the "Posthumous" fifteenth century portrait", Pantheon 46 (1988): p. 37-43., p. 37-43; fig. 10, 11
- Angelica Dulberg, Privatporträts: Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1990)., pl. 59; p. 117
- Klaus Kruger, Der frühe Bildkult des Franziskus in Italien: Gestalt- und Funktionswandel des Tafelbildes im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1992)., p. 189
- Reflections of the passion: selected works from the Princeton University Art Museum: March 9-June 9, 2002, (New York: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002)., no. 14
