Currently not on view
Prudence
Girolamo Genga, 1476–1551; born Urbino, Italy; died La Valle, Italy
y1962-61
Information
Title
Prudence
Maker
Medium
Fresco transferred to canvas, mounted on aluminum
Dimensions
80.5 x 82 cm (31 11/16 x 32 5/16 in.)
frame: 94.7 × 97 × 6.5 cm (37 5/16 × 38 3/16 × 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
y1962-61
Place Made
Europe, Italy, Siena, Umbria, Palazzo del Magnifico (Palazzo Petrucci)
Culture
Type
Subject
Palazzo Petrucci, Siena. Dan Fellows Platt (1873 -1938), Englewood, NJ; by descent to Ethel Bliss Platt (1881-1971) [1]; 1962 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes
[1] Dan Fellows Platt left his collections to the University but gave his wife life-tenure and the right to sell
Female figure
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 16
- 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
- Fiorella Sricchia Santoro, "'Richerche senesi': Il Palazzo del Magnifico Pandolfo Petrucci", Prospettiva 29 (Apr., 1982): p. 24-31., no. 29; p. 31, fig. 18
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Cecil H. Clough, "Pandolfo Petrucci e il concetto di 'magnificenza," Arte, Committenza ed Economia a Roma e nelle Corti del Rinascimento (1420-1530), Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Rome, 24-27 October 1990, (Turin, 1995).
, p. 394 - Laurence B. Kanter, "Luca Signorellia and Girolamo Genga in Princeton," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 68-83., p. 80, fig. 18
- Bernardina Sani, "Per la Conservazione e il Restauro del patrimonio Senese dal", in l corpo dello stile: cultura e lettura del restauro nelle esperienze contemporanee: studi in ricordo di Michele Cordaro, (Roma: De Luca, 2005)., Black and White - Existing Negative
- Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco Federico Mancini, Pintoricchio, (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, ©2008)., p. 283 (illus.); cat. no. 57
