The Betrayal of Christ

between 1437 and 1444

Sassetta Italian, ca. 1400-1450

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Betrayal of Christ

Artwork Date between 1437 and 1444

Artist Sassetta

Life Dates ca. 1400-1450

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Tempera, silver and gold leaf on poplar panel

Dimensions Image (approx.): 14 5/16 × 23 5/16 inches (36.4 × 59.2 cm) Unframed (irreg.): 14 3/4 × 23 5/16 × 1 5/16 inches (37.5 × 59.2 × 3.4 cm) Framed: 27 5/8 × 32 5/8 inches (70.2 × 82.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 46.56

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Provenance

Davenport Bromley (London, England);
1927, (R. Langton Douglas, London, England);
gift to F. Mason Perkins (Assisi and Lastra a Signa, Italy);
1938, by inheritance to Mrs. F. Mason Perkins (London, England);
1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Paintings. Vol. 9: Late Gothic Painting in Tuscany. The Hague, 1928, p. 361.

Sandberg-Vavalà, E. La croce dipinta italiana e l'iconografia della passione. Verona, 1929, p. 341.

Pope-Hennessy, J. "A Passion Predella by Sassetta." Burlington Magazine 73 (1938): p. 49-50, pl. IIB

Pope-Hennessy, J. Sassetta. London, 1939, pp. 114-117, note 46.

Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941, no. 36 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "The Betrayal of Christ by Sassetta." Art Quarterly 9, no. 4 (Autumn 1946): pp. 352, 356-359 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "The Betrayal of Christ by Sassetta." Bulletin of the DIA 26, no. 1 (1947): pp. 8-10 (ill.).

Brandi, C. Quattrocentisti senesi. Milan, 1949, p. 192 note 44, p. 253, note to pl. 75.

Detroit Institute of Arts Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Detroit, 1949, p. 44, (ill.).

Carli, E. Sassetta e il Maestro dell' Osservanza. Milan, 1957, pp. 125-126.

Lacalotte, M. L'information d'histoire de l'art 5 (1960): pp. 52 ff.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 69, (ill.).

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 97.

Vingt ans d'acquisitions au Musée du Louve 1947-1967. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1967, pp. 133-134, cat. 396.

Berenson, B. 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, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 385 [ca. 1435-36.]

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 183.

European Paintings before 1500. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. 1974, vol. 1, p. 124, cat. 43.

Retables italiens du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1978, p. 33.

Sutton, D. "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III." Apollo 110 (July 1979): pp. 222-224 (fig. 7) (ill.).

Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 131, cat. 104 (ill.).

Gothic to Renaissance. European Painting 1300 - 1600 London, 1988, pp. 44-52, p. 46 (ill.).

Banker, J.R. "The Program for the Sassetta Altarpiece in the Church of S. Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro." I Tatti Studies 6 (1991): pp. 31ff. (figs. 16-18).

Teuffel, C.G. von. "Niccolo di Segna, Sassetta, Piero della Francesca and Perugino: Cult and Continuity at Sansepolcro." Städel Jahrbuch 17 (1999): pp. 163-208, p. 176 (fig. 24).

Gordon, Dillian. The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings, vol. I. London, 2003, pp. 350, 352-353.

Israëls, M., ed. Sassetta: the Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, 2 vols. Villa I Tatti series no. 25. Florence and Leiden, 2009, vol. 1, pp. 337-341; vol. 2, pp. 418-421.

De Marchi, Andrea. "Il polittico di Sassetta per San Francesco a Sansepolcro perlustrato." Prospettiva 139-140 (July-October 2010): pp. 115-130.

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Sassetta, The Betrayal of Christ, between 1437 and 1444, tempera, silver and gold leaf on poplar panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 46.56.