The Resurrected Christ

ca. 1480

Sandro Botticelli Italian, 1444 or 1445 - 1510

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title The Resurrected Christ

Artwork Date ca. 1480

Artist Sandro Botticelli

Life Dates 1444 or 1445 - 1510

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 (transferred)

Dimensions Unframed: 18 × 11 3/4 inches (45.7 × 29.8 cm) Framed: 30 1/8 × 22 7/8 × 4 1/4 inches (76.5 × 58.1 × 10.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner

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. 27.3

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Provenance

Emile Gavet (Paris, France);
Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont (Newport, Rhode Island, USA);
until 1927, (Sir Joseph Duveen, London, England);
1927, Dr. W.R. Valentiner (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1927-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. "'The Resurrected Christ' by Botticelli." Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 8 (May 1927): pp. 95-96 (ill.).

Yashiro, Y. "A new Botticelli in Detroit." Art in America 15 (1927) pp. 227-235 (ill.).

van Marle, R. "A 'thorn-crowned Christ' by Botticelli." International Studio 91, 1928, pp. 21-23. [as School of Botticelli.]

Yashiro, Y. Sandro Botticelli. London, 1929, pl. 83, no. 38.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 15 (ill.).

Marle, R. van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague, 1931, vol. 12, pp. 120-21 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "Supplementary remarks on already published works..." Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 3 (December 1931): pp. 33-35, pp. 34-35 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance Oxford, 1932, p. 102. [as Ecce Homo.]

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 87.

Mesnil, J. Botticelli. Paris, 1938, pp. 164-165, 225. [as School of Botticelli.]

Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941, no. 102 (ill.).

WPA Michigan. Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State. New York, 1941, p. 256.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 16, no. 15.

Old Masters from Mid-western Museums. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, 1948, p. 10 (ill.).

Detroit Institute of Arts Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Detroit, 1949, p. 54, (ill.).

Salvini, R. Tutta la pittura del Botticelli. Milan, 1958, vol. 1, p. 63, pl. 106.

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 23, 50, no. 26 (ill.). [as Resurrected Christ.]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School. London, 1963, vol. 1, p 34.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 16.

Salvini, R. All the Paintings of Botticelli, Part II: 1445-1484, trans. J. Grillenzoni. New York, 1965, pp. 71-72, pl. 106.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 77 (ill.).

Mandel, G. The Complete Paintings of Botticelli. New York, 1967, p. 95, no. 66 (ill.). [as "The Redeemer Blessing.]

Behrmann, S.N. Duveen. Boston, 1972, p. 220.

Frederickson, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 33. [as Studio/School of Botticelli.]

Yashiro, Y. Sandro Botticelli. Tokyo, 1977, no. 38 (fig. 83).

Lightbown, R. Sandro Botticelli. Berkeley, 1978, Vol. II, pp. 140-141, cat. C47 (ill.). [as Workshop of Botticelli.]

Zini, Margherita. “Indici di arte Lombarda 1976-77-78-79-80” Arte Lombarda, Nuova Serie 58/59 (1981): 122-170, p. 136.

Castelfranchi Vegas, L. Italia e Fiandra nella pittura del '400. Milan, 1983. [as anonymous student, perhaps Hand H.]

Italien und Flandern: die Geburt der Renaissance. Stuttgart and Zurich, 1984, p. 230.

Flandre et Italie: Primitifs flamands et Renaissance italienne. Antwerp 1984, p. 225.

Goldin, Marco. Raffaello verso Picasso. Storie du sguardi, volti e figure. Exh. cat., Basilica Palladiana. Vicenza, 2012, pp. 223, 326.

Rinaldi, Furio. Botticelli Drawings. Exh. cat., San Francisco; New Haven, 2023, p.188

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Sandro Botticelli, The Resurrected Christ, ca. 1480, paint on wood panel (transferred). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 27.3.