Saint Barbara
Artist
Francesco Guarino da Solofra(Italian, 1611–1654)Italian, 1611–1654
CultureItalian
Titles
- Saint Barbara
Datec. 1635
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 47 3/4 × 37 1/2 in. (121.3 × 95.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Morey
Object number2022.225
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
207 Powell Gallery
On view
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Department
Arts of Europe and the MediterraneanObject Type
Exhibition HistoryThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. On-loan and exhibited, 1946.
"Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th centuries," California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1941.
"Italian Paintings and Drawings of the Seventeenth Century," Durlacher Brothers Gallery, New York, 1932.
"Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1930.
Published References Francesco Guarino da Solofra: Nella pittura napoletana del Seicento (1611-1651), 2nd edition. Riccardo Lattuada (Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2013), 174-176. "Imitando il bel girar degli occhi usata da quell'ammirabil maestro": le "sante vergini" di Cavallino e Guarino." Gianluca Forgione. Francesco Guarini: nuovi contributi, vol. I. Mario Alberto Pavone, ed. (Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2012): 88, 99. Francesco Guarino da Solofra: Nella pittura napoletana del Seicento (1611-1651). Riccardo Lattuada (Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2000), 174-176. "Opere di Francesco Guarino a Campobasso." Riccardo Lattuada. Prospettiva (n. 31, October 1982), 50-69. "Unbekanntes von Francesco Guarino: Beitrage zur Neapolitanischen Seicentomalerei." Eric Schleier. Pantheon (XXXIII, Heft. I, 1975), 27-33, 54. The Baroque Painters of Italy. Arthur McComb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934), 49, 126. "Italian Baroque Art at Hartford" (review). Russell Hitchcock Jr. International Studio (April, 1930), 22. "Sei- and Settecento Art Shown at Wadsworth Atheneum." Arthur McComb. Art News (XXVIII, n. 18, February 1930), 4-5. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: being an account of the chief collection of painting, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., etc. etc., Supplement. Gustav Friedrich Waagen (London: John Murray, 1854). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Catalogue raisonnéLattuada, Riccardo. Francesco Guarino da Solofra: nella pittura napoletana del Seicento (1611-1651). Naples: Paparo Edizioni, 2000, pp. 174-176.
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Andrea di Bonaiuto (Andrea da Firenze)
Mid-1360s
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
44.556-.559
