A Baptismal Ceremony
A Baptismal Ceremony
- Artist
- Master of the Glasgow Adoration
- Artist Dates
- active 1505-1520
- Artist Nationality
- Spanish
- Title
- A Baptismal Ceremony
- Date
- c. 16th century
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 62.9 x 73.7 cm (24-3/4 x 29 in)
- K Number
- K78
- Repository
- Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
- Accession Number
- 1979.0648P
- Notes
Provenance
(Volterra, Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] in 1930; gift 1961 to George Peabody College for Teachers, now Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, in 1961, no. 1979.0648P.
Catalogue Entry
Master of the Glasgow Adoration
A Baptismal Ceremony
K78
Nashville, Tenn., George Peabody College for Teachers, Study Collection (A-61-10-6), since 1961.(1) Wood. 24 3/4 X29 in. (62.9 X 73.7 cm.). Fair condition; some restorations around edges and a few on the figures. Some similarity of style to the frescoes in San Frediano, Lucca, painted by Amico Aspertini soon after 1506, has suggested a tentative attribution of K78 to him.(2) The work is probably that of a follower of Costa and Aspertini. Provenance: Volterra, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1930.
References
(1) Peabody acquisitions report, 1961, p. 12, as Aspertini. (2) R. Longhi (verbally) has tentatively attributed K78 to Aspertini, c. 1515/20.