Michele Tosini
Saint Mary Magdalene

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Artist Michele Tosini Italian (Florentine), 1503–1577

CultureItalian

Titles

Saint Mary Magdalene

Date1560s

PlaceFlorence, Italy

MediumOil on wood

Dimensionspanel: 34 1/4 × 25 13/16 in. (87 × 65.7 cm)
frame: 41 1/2 × 33 in. (105.4 × 83.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Samuel H. Kress Collection

Object number61.67

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceDuc de Lorraine; [Contini Bonacossi, Florence] sold to Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1950; donated to MFAH on December 9, 1961.
Exhibition History"Bacchiacca and his Friends," Baltimore Museum of Art, January 10–February 19, 1961. (Exhibited as Vasari, c. 1560).

The First Methodist Church, Houston, 1967.

"The Age of Vasari," Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, February 20–March 31, 1970. (Exhibited as Vasari).

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Hidden Layers: Painting and Process in Europe, 1500–1800," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 26–September 3, 2018.

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