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Giuseppe Bazzani
Description
- Giuseppe Bazzani
- Pietà with Mary Magdalene
- inscribed on the reverse on the stretcher: Bozzetto della Picta del Duomo di Mantova
- oil on canvas
- 36 1/4 x 55 3/4 inches
Provenance
With Italico and Alessandro Brass, Venice, 1924-1950;
From whom purchased by Severance A. Millikin, Cleveland;
By whom given to The Cleveland Museum of Art in 1955 [acc. no. 1955.682].
Exhibited
Literature
O. Benesch, "Maulbertsche zu den Quellen Seines Malerischen Stils," in Städel-Jahrbuch, 1924, vol. 3-4, pp. 139-141, reproduced pl. 113;
N. Ivanoff, "Tre Pietà di Giuseppe Bazzani," in Emporium, vol. CIX, April 1949, p. 162-166, reproduced fig. 3;
H. S. Francis, "A Pietà by Giuseppe Bazzani: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance Milliken," in Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XLIII, March 1956, pp. 44-46, reproduced p. 42;
Art Quarterly, Autumn 1956, vol. XIX, p. 305, no. 4;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1958, p. 147, reproduced fig. 427;
N. Ivanoff, "Band I," in Kindlers Malerei Lexikon, Zurich 1964, p. 251, reproduced;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1966, p. 147, reproduced;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1969, p. 147, reproduced;
B. Fredrickson & F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 21, 296, 574;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1978, p. 148, reproduced;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings: Part Three. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, Cleveland 1982, pp. 308-309, no. 137, reproduced;
F. Caroli, Giuseppe Bazzani: L'Opera completa, Milan 1988, p. 203, no. 308, reproduced;
A. Chong, European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue, Cleveland 1993, p. 8, reproduced.
Condition
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