Currently not on view
Blessed Filippo Benizzi
Liberale da Verona, Italian, 1445–1529
y1935-26
Information
Title
Blessed Filippo Benizzi
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
126 x 43.2 cm (49 5/8 x 17 in.)
frame: 157.4 x 78.5 x 14 cm (61 15/16 x 30 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-26
Place Collected
Europe, Verona, Pietro Monga
Culture
Type
Subject
Andrea Monga (1794-1861), Verona; By descent to his son, Cav. Pietro Monga (?-?), Verona; Purchased from him by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) in Verona in February 1888; Purchased from him by Henry White Cannon (1850-1934) in Florence on March 10, 1906; By descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
Saint Anthony of Padua
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 6; p. 48-50
- Bernard Berenson, North Italian painters of the Renaissance, (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907)., p. 244
- Eugenio Levi, A history of the suppressed Convent of San Michele alla Doccia sotto Fiesole, Florence: founded in 1411, now the property of Mr. Henry White Cannon, followed by a brief account of the religious orders of Italy, (Florence: Tipografia Giuntina, 1911)., opposite p. 166 (illus.)
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1932)., p. 268
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 15; p. 21-22; fig. 15
- Carlo Del Bravo, "Liberale in patria", Arte Veneta, Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 1963, 17, (1964): p. 41-49., p. 41
- Carlo Del Bravo, Liberale da Verona, (Firenze: Edizioni d’arte Il fiorino, 1967)., p. 201 (illus.)
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Central Italian and North Italian schools, (London: Phaidon, 1968)., p. 205
- 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
