A Dominican Preaching, c. 1470

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Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 43 x 34 cm (16 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

framed: 65.1 x 55.6 x 7.6 cm (25 5/8 x 21 7/8 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg

Accession Number

1941.5.2

Artists / Makers

Agnolo degli Erri (painter) Emilian, active 1440s - 1497

Image Use

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Provenance

Commissioned c. 1470 for the old church of San Domenico, Modena; church demolished and rebuilt 1708, and its paintings perhaps dispersed at that time.[1] Baron Michele Lazzaroni, Rome, by 1925.[2] Mrs. Felix Warburg, New York, by 1936;[3] gift 1941 to NGA.

[1] L. Vedriani, in Raccolta de' pittori modonesi più celebri, Modena, 1662: 23, noted that the St. Thomas Aquinas altarpiece was in a chapel on the rood screen of San Domenico.

[2] It was first noted in the Lazzaroni collection by Bernard Berenson, "Nove pitture in cerca di un' attribuzione," Dedalo 5 (1925): 607.

[3] Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936: 323.

Associated Names

Lazzaroni, Michele, Baron
Warburg, Felix M., Mrs.

Exhibition History

2014: Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2014-2015, no. 45a, repro.

Bibliography

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 251, repro. 156, as by Domenico Morone.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 48.

1968: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:281, as by Domenico Morone, S. Thomas Aquinas preaching in a square.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 41, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 124, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:174-175; 2:pl. 121.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 150, repro.

2003: Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 255-260, color repro.

2008: Pujmanová, Olga, with the assistance of Petr Pribyl. Italian Painting c. 1330-1550. I. National Gallery in Prague. II. Collections in the Czech Republic. Illustrated Summary catalogue. Prague, 2008: 269.

2012: Howard, Peter. “Preaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion in Renaissance Florence.” In Mobs: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry. Edited by Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff. Leiden, 2012: x, 203, 223, fig. 1.