Saint Anthony Abbot
Saint Anthony Abbot
- Artist
- Giusto de' Menabuoi
- Artist Dates
- active from 1349-died by 1393
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Anthony Abbot
- Date
- c. 1363
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 57 x 16.5 cm (22-7/16 x 6-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K1122B
- Repository
- Georgia Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- R-3
- Notes
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One of 5 panels from a dismembered polyptych. The set includes K179, K231A, K231B, K1122A, K1122B.
Provenance
Probably Suor Isotta Terzaghi. [1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 29 June 1937 [K1122A] and on 16 June 1937 [K1122B]; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1939; deaccessioned in 1952; gift to 1961 Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, no. R-3. [1] This panel has been identified as part of a polyptych of which the middle panel, the Madonna, bears an inscription stating that Giusto painted the altarpiece, Suor Isotta Terzaghi commissioned it, and the date was 1363.
Catalogue Entry
Giusto de' Menabuoi
Saint Anthony Abbot
K1122B
Athens, Ga., University of Georgia, Study Collection (R-5, R-4, and R-3), since 1961.(1) Wood. K179, 22 3/4 X 13 3/8 in. (57.8 X 34 cm.); K231A, B, each, 22 3/8 X 6 1/4 in. (56.9 X 15.9 cm.); K1122A, 22 1/2 X 6 1/2 in. (57.2 X 16.5 cm.); K1122B, 22 7/16 X 6 1/2 in. (57 X 16.5 cm.). Inscribed on the halos are only partly legible names of the saints. All panels considerably damaged and restored. These have been recognized as parts of a dismembered polyptych of which the middle panel, the Madonna (in the Schiff Collection, formerly Pisa and then Montignoso di Massa),(2) bears an inscription stating that Giusto painted the altarpiece, Suor Isotta Terzaghi commissioned it, and the date was 1363. It is thus Giusto's earliest known documented work and belongs to his Lombard period. The panels here catalogued, augmented by two lost figures of saints, were originally placed at the sides of the Madonna, and the altarpiece was crowned by saints in half-length panels and tondi.(3) Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1931 (K179), 1932 (K231A, B), 1937 (K1122A, B) – exhibited: 'Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress,' Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1932, through Salt Lake City, Sept. 1933, p. 29 of catalogue (K179 only), as Giusto de'Menabuoi; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (192), 1941-52 (K179 only);(4) 'Arte Lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza,' Milan, April-June, 1958, nos. 36-40 of catalogue, as Giusto de'Menabuoi.
References
(1) Catalogue by L. C. Walker, Jr., as Giusto de'Menabuoi. (2) The Schiff panel is reproduced by S. Bettini, Giusto de'Menabuoi, 1944,fig. 9. (3) R. Longhi (in Pinacoteca, 1928, p. 138; and in Arte Veneta, vol. I, 1947, pp. 79 f.) associates the Kress panels and other extant panels with the Schiff Madonna. B. Berenson, G. Fiocco, R. van Marle, F.M. Perkins, W.E. Suida, and A. Venturi (in ms. opinions) attribute the panels to Giusto. (4) Preliminary Catalogue, 1941, p. 88, as Giusto de'Menabuoi.