Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns

early 1630s

Guido Reni Italian, 1575-1642

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns

Artwork Date early 1630s

Artist Guido Reni

Life Dates 1575-1642

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 Oil on copper

Dimensions Panel: 19 1/2 × 16 inches (49.5 × 40.6 cm) Framed: 33 × 29 5/8 × 2 inches (83.8 × 75.3 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

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. 89.23

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Provenance

sold by (Christie's, London, England);
1889, purchased by James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, p. 29, no. 28.

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150.

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 17.

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 25, no. 26.

Detroit Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 39, no. 25.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 184 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 108, no. 184.

Favorite Italian and Spanish Masters of the 17th And 18th Centuries. Exh. cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg, 1951, pp. 4, 15, no. 20, (pl. IV).

Myers, B.S., ed. Encyclopedia of Painting. New York, 1970, p. 413 (ill.).

Garboli, C., and E. Baccheschi. L'opera completa di Guido Reni. Milan, 1971, p. 113, cat. 194d.

Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 173.

Pepper, Stephen D. Guido Reni, A Complete Catalogue of His Works. Oxford, 1984, pp. 235, 270, cat. 146A (fig. 172).

Conti, A. "Pittura e immagine in Guido Reni: dalle opere 'non perfette' al tempo pittore." Prospettiva 52 (1988): pp. 25-31; p. 28 [as 18th century].

Frankfurt, Guido Reni e l'Europa. Fama e fortuna. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle. Frankfurt, 1988, p. 220.

Ecclesia triumphans dresdenis: Christliche Kunst am Hofe der sächsischen Könige von Polen. Exh. cat., Staatliche Gemäldegalerie. Vienna, 1988, p. 56.

Guido Reni 1575-1642. Exh. cat., Pinacoteca. Bologna, 1988, pp. 274-275, cat. 45 [English cat]; p. 134, cat. no. 56 (ill.) [Italian cat.].

Spear, R. "Re-viewing the 'Divine Guido.'" Burlington Magazine 131 (1989): pp. 367-372; p. 372.

Markova, V. "Un dipinto sconosciuto e gli altri quadri del Reni al Museo 'Pushkin' di Mosca." Accademia Clementina: atti e memorie 25 (1990): pp. 81-85; p. 84, note 15.

Italian and the Italianate. Exh. cat., Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd. London, 1990, pp. 8-9.

Loire, S. "Guido Reni dopo la mostra di Bologna: qualche aggiunta." Accademia Clementina: atti e memorie 25 (1990): pp. 9-30; p. 28.

Mazza, A. La collezione dei dipinti antichi della Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena. Cento, 1991, pp. 150, 152.

Quadri senza casa dai depositi della Galleria Corsini. Exh. cat., Galleria Nazionale, Palazzo Corsini. Rome, 1993, p. 18.

Spear, R.E. The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni. New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 74, 200, 236, 237, 372, note 58 (fig. 114).

Ugolini, G. "E a Detroit il 'Reni' di Sassocorvaro?" Studi montefeltrani 21 (2001): pp. 123-126.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 8, 152-155, no. 50.

Bowron, Edgar Peters. "Introduction: The Critical Fortunes of Italian Baroque Painting in America." Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, pp. 5, 14.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, pp. 94–95 (ill.).

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