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accession number: 1939.68
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Lazarus and the Rich Man, c. 1550. Jacopo Bassano (Italian, c. 1510–1592). Oil on canvas; framed: 176 x 251 x 12 cm (69 5/16 x 98 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 146 x 221 cm (57 1/2 x 87 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1939.68
title: Lazarus and the Rich Man
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creation date: c. 1550
creation date earliest: 1545
creation date latest: 1555
current location: 217 Italian Baroque
creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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culture: Italy, 16th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jacopo Bassano (Italian, c. 1510–1592) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 176 x 251 x 12 cm (69 5/16 x 98 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 146 x 221 cm (57 1/2 x 87 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts
opening date: 1949-09-30T04:00:00
Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).
title: The Venetian Tradition
opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).
title: The Italian Heritage; an exhibition of works of art lent from American collections for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA)
opening date: 1967-05-17T04:00:00
The Italian Heritage; an exhibition of works of art lent from American collections for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA). Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (May 17-August 29, 1967).
title: Jacopo Bassano: A Quadricentennial Retrospective
opening date: 1992-09-05T04:00:00
Jacopo Bassano: A Quadricentennial Retrospective. Museo Civico, Sassoferrato, Italy (September 5-December 6, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (January 23-April 25, 1993).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'American Art Dealers Association Exhibition. Los Angeles, CA: (1929).', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Four Outstanding Venetian Canvases. Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH: (1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA: (August 1 to-August 31, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-08-31T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA: (June 24-July 24, 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-06-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Simonetti (Rome, Italy) 1905
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Dan Fellows Platt, 1873-1928 (Englewood, New Jersey), upon his death, held in trust by the estate
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Estate of Dan Fellows Platt, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1939.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. IX, pt. 4, P. 1147, 1252; Reproduced: P. 1149, fig. 812
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Perkins, F. Mason "Dipinti Italiani nella Raccolta Platt." Rassegna d'Arte Antica e Moderna (1911): 145-149.
page number: Mentioned: P. 147, n. 2
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Brown, Alice Van Vechten, and William Rankin. A Short History of Italian Painting. London, United Kingdom: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1914.
page number: Reproduced: p. 343
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, and Jessie Niles Burness. Sculpture and Mural Paintings in the Beautiful Courts, Colonnades and Avenues of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco 1915. San Francisco: Robert A. Reid, official view Book publisher, 1915.
page number: Reproduced: no. 4009, vol. I; p. 456 vol. II
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Perkins, F. Mason "Miscellanea." Rassegna d'Arte Antica e Moderna (1915): 121-125.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 121-122
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Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Pietro de'Marescalchi detto lo Spada." Belvedere VIII (1929): 211-225.
page number: Mentioned: P. 214
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Venturi, Adolfo. "Jacopo Bassano." L'Arte XXXII, no. 16 (1929): 107-125.
page number: Mentioned: P. 117-121; Reproduced: Fig. 8
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Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Bologna: Casa Apollo, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: P. 343
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Francis, Henry S. "Lazarus and the Rich Man by Jacopo Bassano." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXVI no.10 (December, 1939): 155-158.
page number: Reproduced: p. 156
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 56
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n64
Longhi, Roberto. "Calepino Veneziano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte II (1948): 41-55.
page number: Mentioned: P. 54
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Magagnato, Licisco. "In Margine alla Mostra dei Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte VI (1952): 220-229.
page number: Mentioned: P. 226; reproduced: P. 225, fig. 240
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Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen, eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Budapest, Hungary: Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1956.
page number: Reproduced: p. 369, vol. I
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Magagnato, Licisco. "Jacopo Bassano intorno al 1540." Critica Critica d'Arte No. 13-14 (1956): 103-106.
page number: Mentioned: P. 106; Reproduced: Pl. 110, 111
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Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957.
page number: Reproduced: p. 17. vol. !, p. 1197, vol. II
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Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Francesco Vecellio e Jacopo Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XI (1957): 91-96.
page number: Mentioned: P. 96
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Podesta, Attilio. "La Mostra di Jacopo Bassano." Emporium CXXVI, no. 7 (July 1957): 3-23.
page number: Reproduced: P. 14
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Muraro, Michelangelo. "The Jacopo Bassano Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 99, no. 654 (September 1957): 291-99.
page number: Mentioned: P. 295-296; reproduced: fig. 1
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/872092
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 421
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n77
Nicolson, Benedict. Hendrick Terbrugghen. London, United Kingdom: L. Humphries, 1958.
page number: Reproduced: p. 102
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Zampetti, Pietro. Jacopo Bassano. Roma, Italy: Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1958.
page number: Reproduced: p. 36, pl. XLII-XLIV
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Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, p. 403
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Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Milano: Ceschina, 1960.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. I, p. 65-66; 84; 90; 95, n.48; 96, n. 57; 97; 166; 317; Reproduced: Vol. II, pls. 94-98
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Askew, Pamela. "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti." The Art Bulletin 43, no. 1 (March 1961): 21-45.
page number: Mentioned: P. 32
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3047929
Jaffe, Michael. “Cleveland Museum of Art: The Figurative Arts of the West, c. 1400-1800.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 457–467.
page number: Mentioned: P. 467
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Ballarin, Alessandro. "L'Orto del Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XVIII (1964): 55-72.
page number: Mentioned: P. 66-67; reproduced: fig. 72
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n122
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967.
page number: Reproduced: no. 141
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Committee to Rescue Italian Art, and Wildenstein and Company. The Italian Heritage; An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent from American Collections for the Benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, May 17-August 29, 1967, Wildenstein. New York, NY: Wildenstein Galleries.
page number: Reproduced: p. 27
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Tomory, P. A. "Profane Love in Italian Early and High Baroque Painting, The Transmission of Emotive Experience." In Essays Presented to Rudolf Wittkower on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. In Two Parts. Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard & Milton J. Lewineeds.,182-187. [London]: Phaidon Press, 1967.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, P. 185; reproduced: XXV, pl. 3
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98
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Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione ad un Catalogo dei Disegni di Jacopo Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXIII (1969): 85-114.
page number: Mentioned: P. 104, 106; reproduced: fig. 372
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Ballarin, Alessandro. "Un Ritratto Inedito del Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXV (1971): 268-271.
page number: Mentioned: P. 270-271; reproduced: fig. 372
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Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
page number: Reproduced: p. 18, 279,573
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page number: Reproduced: p. 114
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page number: Mentioned: P. 170-171; reproduced: fig. 1
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page number: Reproduced: p. 15
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Kitaj, R. B., and Timothy Hyman. "A Return to London" IN Kitaj Paintings, Drawings, Pastels. John Ashebury, Joe Shannon, Jane Livingston, 41. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1983.
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