Scene from the Life of a Female Saint

15th century

Antonio Vivarini Italian, ca. 1415-1484

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Title Scene from the Life of a Female Saint

Artwork Date 15th century

Artist Antonio Vivarini

Life Dates ca. 1415-1484

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. Unknown

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 14 3/8 × 10 1/4 × 1/2 inches (36.5 × 26 × 1.3 cm) Framed: 17 × 13 7/8 × 1 inches (43.2 × 35.2 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 29.318

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by 1929, (Gustavo Volterra, Florence, Italy)

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. "A Venetian Predella Painting," Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 3 (December 1929): pp. 39-40, (repr.).

Heil, W. ed. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 239, (repr.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 200 [as Francesco de'Franceschi].

Berenson, B. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 172 [as Francesco de'Franceschi].

Pudelko, G. "Ein Petrus-Martyr-Altar des Antonio Vivarini," Pantheon, vol. 20 (September 1937): pp. 283-86, esp. pp. 284-285, (fig. 5).

Thieme-Becker. "Antonio Vivarini." In Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 34. Leipzig, 1940, pp. 445-49, esp. p. 446 [entry by B. Fleischmann; cited in association with the S. Monica altarpiece, S. Stefano, Venice].

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 140, no. 239.

Longhi, R. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946, p. 50, note 27.

Vivarini, A. "La Conversione del Marito di Saint Monica," Arte Veneta, Annata II (1948): p. 18, (repr.).

Fiocca, G. "Le pitture venete del Castello di Konopiste," Arte Veneta, vol. 2 (1948): p. 19.

Zeri, F. "Un pannello della pala di Santa Monica di Antonio Vivarini," Paragone-Arte, vol. 19 (1951): pp. 46-47.

Coletti, L. Pittura veneta del Quattrocento. Novara, 1953, p. 29, pl. 52 & 52a.

Moschini Marconi, S. Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia: Opere d'arte dei secoli XIV e XV. Rome, 1955, p. 35.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 79 [as Francesco de'Franceschi].

Catalogue of the Lee Collection. Courtauld Institute of Art. London, 1958, pp. 4-5.

Pallucchini, R. I Vivarini: Antonio. Bartolomeo, Alvise Venice, 1962, pp. 26, 97, (fig. 13).

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 112.

Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 211 [as "S. Monica converting her husband"].

Kaftal, G. Iconography of the Saints in the Painting of North East Italy. Florence, 1978, col. 756, (fig. 977) [from life of S. Monica].

La Spezia, Museo Civico Amadeo Lia, Dipinti, La Spezia, 1997, p. 356, (repr. fig. c) [in cat. no. 163, pp. 354-356, entry by Andrea G. De Marchi].

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Antonio Vivarini, Scene from the Life of a Female Saint, 15th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.318.