The Mourning Saint John

15th century

Andrea da Murano Italian, active from 1462, died 1512

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About the Artwork

Title The Mourning Saint John

Artwork Date 15th century

Artist Andrea da Murano

Life Dates active from 1462

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 Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 47 1/8 × 17 7/8 inches (119.7 × 45.4 cm) Framed: 50 1/2 × 22 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (128.3 × 57.8 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Edsel B. Ford

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. 37.37

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Provenance

possibily Collection Gaboriaud (Paris, France) [according to Zeri, 1968];
art market (Florence, Italy) [according to Deusch, 1934];
until 1937 (Ugo Jandolo, Rome, Italy);
1937, Edsel B. Ford;
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Deusch, W.R. "Zur Entwicklung Andrea del Castagnos." Pantheon 14 (December 1934): pp. 355-364; p. 364 (note 1).

Venturi, A. "Andrea del Castagno, Il Pinturicchio, Gaudenzio Ferrari: tre quadri inediti." L'Arte 39 (April 1936): pp. 123-131; p. 123, 125; (fig. 1).

Pudelko, G. "Two portraits ascribed to Andrea del Castagno." Burlington Magazine 68 (1936): pp. 235-244; p. 239, note 9.

Valentiner, W.R. "St. John by Andrea del Castagno." Bulletin of the DIA 16, no. 8 (May 1937): pp. 122-26, (repr., cover repr. (detail)).

Valentiner, W.R. "A Castagno for Detroit." Art News 35, no. 31 (May 1, 1937): p. 11, 22.

"Ein Castagno für das Museum in Detroit," Weltkunst 11, nos. 24-25 (June 20, 1937): p. 6.

Richter, G.M. "The Beginnings of Andrea del Castagno." Art in America 29, no. 4 (October 1941): pp. 177–199; p. 194 [dated ca. 1445-49].

Valentiner, W. R. "Late Gothic Sculpture in Detroit," Art Quarterly 6, no. 4 (Autumn 1943): pp. 276–304, p. 294 (fig. 13).

Richter, G.M. Andrea del Castagno. Chicago, 1943, p. 19, (pl. 47).

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 23, no. 466 [dates picture to ca. 1442; cited as by Andrea del Castagno].

Longhi, R. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946, p. 58, (fig. 55) [citation only, in private American collection].

Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 43 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Studies of Italian Renaissance Sculpture. London, 1950, p. 34, (fig. 34).

Greenleaf, William. From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936. Detroit, 1964, p. 163.

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 22 [as by Andrea del Castagno].

Zeri, F. "A note on Andrea da Murano," Art Quarterly 31, no. 1 (Spring 1968): pp. 76-82, (repr.) [as by Andrea da Murano].

Frederickson, B. and F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 7 [as by Andrea da Murano].

Salmazo, A. de Nicoló. "Per una reconstruzione della prima attivitá do Andrea da Murana." Saggi e memorie di Storia dell'Arte 10 (1976): p. 25.

Longhi, R. Le Arti. 1941, p. 19. Reprint, Opere complete, vol. 9, Florence, 1979, pl. 18A.

Longhi, R. "Arte Italiana e Arte Tedesca' con altre congiunture fra Italia ed Europa, 1939-1969." In Opera Completa. Florence, Sansoni, 1979, pl. 18b.

Horster, M. Andrea del Castagno. Ithaca, 1980, pp. 192-93, (pl. 123) [as wrongly attributed to Castagno].

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