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Portrait of a Benedictine
Giovanni Caroto, Italian, 1488–ca. 1566
y1935-32
Information
Title
Portrait of a Benedictine
Maker
Medium
Oil (?) on wood panel
Dimensions
35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
frame: 46.5 x 42.5 x 4.5 cm (18 5/16 x 16 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-32
Place Made
Europe, Verona
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Count Portalupi (?-?), Verona; Purchased from him by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) in Verona in June 1887; 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.
- 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
- Barclay Baron, "Giovanni Caroto-II: works attributed", Burlington magazine 18, no. 93 (Dec., 1910): p. 176-183., p. 181; no. 11
- 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
- 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. 99
- ed., Pierpaolo Brugnoli, Maestri della pittura veronese, (Verona: Banca mutua popolare di Verona, 1974)., p. 164
