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Jacopo Bellini

Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Bernardino of Siena, 1459

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 13

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 110 x 57 cm (43 5/16 x 22 7/16 in.)

framed: 127 x 74 x 9.8 cm (50 x 29 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Donor, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.118.1

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Bellini (painter) Venetian, c. 1390/1400 - 1470/1471

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Inscription

around circumference of the disk held by Saint Bernardino: innomine.chri[sti omne] genuflectatur.coelestium.terrestriu.et.infernorum. (Philippians 2:10); center of the disk: YHS

Provenance

Possibly Gattamelata chapel, Basilica del Santo, Padua.[1] private collection, The Netherlands;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1981, no. 124, as by C. Crivelli). (Piero Corsini, New York);[3] private collection, New York, by 1984;[4] (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York); sold 1989 to private collection;[5] gift (partial and promised) 1990 to NGA.

[1] This was the first chapel to the right entering the church, dismantled in 1651 when it was transformed into the chapel of the Sacrament (see Marcantonio Michiel, Notizia d'opere di disegno, 2nd rev. ed., ed. Gustavo Frizzoni, Bologna, 1884: 7-8). This earlier provenance is hypothetical; for a complete discussion see the NGA systematic catalogue entry by Miklòs Boskovits in 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: 89-94.

[2] See Peter Humfrey, Gothic to Renaissance. European Painting 1300-1600, exh. cat., Colnaghi, London and New York, 1988: 26.

[3] See Colin Eisler, "'Saints Anthony Abbot and Bernardino of Siena' Designed by Jacopo and Painted by Gentile Bellini," Arte Veneta XXXIX (1985): 40, n. 6.

[4] According to a letter of 22 June 1984 from the collector to Miklòs Boskovits (copy in NGA curatorial files).

[5] Nicholas H.J. Hall, ed., Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi in New York, New York, 1992: 37.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Corsini, Inc., Piero
Pearl, Geryl T.
Private Collection c/o Serge Plantureux
Private Collection, the Netherlands
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1988: Gothic to Renaissance: European Painting 1300-1600, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1988, unnumbered catalogue.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 2-3, color repro.

Bibliography

1985: Boskovits, Miklós. "Per Jacopo Bellini pittore (Postilla ad un Colloquio)." Paragone 36, nos. 419-421-423 (January - May 1985):113-123, repro.

1985: Eisler, Colin. "'Saints Anthony Abbot and Bernardino of Siena, Designed by Jacopo and Painted by Gentile Bellini." Arte Veneta 39 (1985):32-40

1986: Boskovits, Miklós. "Giovanni Bellini. Quelques suggestions sur ses débuts." La revue du Louvre 36, no. 6 (1986):386-393, repro.

1987: Christiansen, Keith. "Venetian Painting of the Early Quattrocento." Apollo (March 1987):166-177, fig. 8.

1997: Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Illustrated Jesus through the Centuries, New Haven & London, 1997, p. 117, repro.

2003: Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 89-94, color repro.

2006: Banzato, Davide, Alberta De Nicolò Salmazo, and Anna Maria Spiazzi, eds. Mantegna e Padova, 1445-1460. Exh. cat. Musei civici agli Eremitani, Padua. Milan, 2006: 288, 290, 292, 294.

2006: Banzato, Davide. “L’evoluzione delle pala d’altare tra Padova e Venezia tra il Tardogotico e il primo Rinascimento.” In Davide Banzato, Alberta De Nicolò Salmazo, and Anna Maria Spiazzi, eds. Mantegna e Padova, 1445-1460. Exh. cat. Musei civici agli Eremitani, Padua. Milan, 2006: 104-105, fig. 18 (as part of the hypothetical reconstruction).

2006: Salmazo, Alberta De Nicolò. “Andrea Mantegna e Padova. 1445-1460.” In Alberta De Nicolò Salmazo, and Anna Maria Spiazzi, eds. Mantegna e Padova, 1445-1460. Exh. cat. Musei civici agli Eremitani, Padua. Milan, 2006: 18, fig. 25.

2008: Bellosi, Luciano. “Giovanni Bellini et Andrea Mantegna.” In Giovanni Agosti and Dominique Thiébaut, eds. Mantegna 1431 - 1506. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2008: 103, fig. 17, 113, 115.

2011: Boskovits, Miklós, ed. The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. Vol. II: Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century. Florence, 2011: 76.

2019: Lucco, Mauro, Peter Humfrey, and Giovanni C.F. Villa. Giovanni Bellini: Catalogo ragionato. Treviso, 2019: 294-295, cat. 5.

2023: Müller, Rebecca. Die Vivarini: Bildproduktion in Venedig 1440 bis 1505. Regensburg, 2023: 448.