id: 138444
accession number: 1962.36
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St. Francis Kneeling before Christ on the Cross, 1437–1444. Sassetta (Italian, 1392–1450). Tempera and gold on wood; framed: 91 x 46.5 x 4.5 cm (35 13/16 x 18 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 81 x 40.2 cm (31 7/8 x 15 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1962.36
title: St. Francis Kneeling before Christ on the Cross
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creation date: 1437–1444
creation date earliest: 1437
creation date latest: 1444
current location: 100 1916 Lobby
creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: Italy, 15th century
technique: tempera and gold on wood
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Medieval Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Sassetta (Italian, 1392–1450) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 91 x 46.5 x 4.5 cm (35 13/16 x 18 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 81 x 40.2 cm (31 7/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review - 1962
opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00
Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).
title: Gothic Art 1360-1440
opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00
Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).
title: The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination
opening date: 2013-02-17T00:00:00
The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-June 2, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Fliegel, Stephen N. The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination" held 17 Feb to 2 June 2013 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2013. Cat 15, pg 110-1.', 'opening_date': '2013-02-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (02/17/2013 - 06/02/2013): "Caporali"', 'opening_date': '2013-02-17T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
S. Francesco, Borgo Sansepolcro (broken up c. 1578); Prince Johann Georg of Saxony (by 1936); Gerhard Freiherr von Preuschen, Stuttgart (1950); (P. Drey, New York)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Bauch, Kurt. "Christus am Kreuz und der beilige Franziskus." In Eine Gabe Der Freunde Für Carl Georg Heise Zum 28. VI. 1950, Erich Meyer, ed., 103-112. [Berlin]: [Gebr. Mann], 1950.
page number: Reproduced: p. 104
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Gronau, H.D. "Early Italian Paintings at Stuttgart." The Burlington Magazine 92, no. 572 (November 1950): 321-323, 325.
page number: Mentioned: p. 322; Reproduced: p. 323, pl. 22
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/870507
Carli, Enzo. "Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 578 (May 1951): 145-152.
page number: Mentioned: p. 147, 151
url: ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/870453
Carli, Enzo. La Pittura Senese. Milano: Electa Editrice, 1955.
page number: Mentioned: p. 196
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L. K. "Zurigo: Bellezza Sconosciuta." Emporium CXXIV, no. 740 (August 1956): 85-89.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 85
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Carli, Enzo. Sassetta e il Maestro dell'Osservanza. Milano: Aldo Martello Editore, 1957.
page number: Mentioned: p. 56
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National Gallery (Great Britain), and Martin Davies. The Earlier Italian Schools. 2d ed., rev. London: Publications Dept., National Gallery, 1961.
page number: Mentioned: p. 511, n. 24
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Berenson, Bernard, Nicky Mariano, and Villa I Tatti. La Raccolta Berenson. Edited by Franco Russoli. Milano: Officine grafiche Ricordi, 1962.
page number: Mentioned: pl. XL
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Francis, Henry. "Sassetta: Crucifixion wtih St. Francis." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 3 (March 1963): 46-49.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 47-48
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151940
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. 58
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n82
De Fernandez-Gimenez, Elizabeth Ourusoff. “Giovanni Di Paolo: The Life of St. Catherine of Siena.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 4 (April 1967): 103–110.
page number: Mentioned: p. 103
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152153
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places: Central Italian and North Italian Schools. London: Phaidon, 1968.
page number: Mentioned: p. 384, Vol. I
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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. 58
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n82
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p. 183, 397, 574
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 43, p. 121 - 124
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Os, H. W. van. “St. Francis of Assisi as a Second Christ in Early Italian Painting.” Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 7, no. 3 (1974): 115–132.
page number: Mentioned and re[produced: p. 126-127, fig. 16
url: https://doi.org/10.2307/3780297
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 66
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n86
Braham, Allan. “Reconstructing Sassetta’s Sansepolcro Altar-Piece.” The Burlington Magazine 120, no. 903 (1978): 386–392.
page number: Mentioned: p. 386, n. 6
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/879238
Ressort, Claudie, Sylvie M. Béguin, and Musée du Louvre Département des peintures. Retables Italiens Du XIIIe Au XVe Siècle: Catalogue. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1978.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32-33
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy. The Robert Lehman Collection. New York, Princeton: The Museum; Princeton University Press, 1987.
page number: Mentioned: p. 102-104, Vol. I; Reproduced: p. 293, fig. 31, Vol. I
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Garstang, Donald, and P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Gothic to Renaissance: European Painting, 1300-1600. London: Colnaghi, 1988.
page number: Mentioned: p. 46; Reproduced: p. 49
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Clément, Christophe, Musée du Louvre, and Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Polyptyques: Le Tableau Multiple Du Moyen Âge Au Vingtième Siècle: Musée Du Louvre, Paris, 27 Mars-23 Juillet 1990. Paris: Ministère de la Culture, de la Communications, des Grands Travaux et du Bicentenaire, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: p. 80; Reproduced: p. 85, fig. 3
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Banker, James R. “The Program for the Sassetta Altarpiece in the Church of S. Francesco in Borgo S. Sepolcro.” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 4 (1991): 11–58.
page number: Mentioned: p. 30-32, 45, nn. 52, 56, 66; Reproduced: figs. 22, 33, 34
url: https://doi.org/10.2307/4603669
Gardner von Teuffel, Christa. "Niccolo di Segna, Sassetta, Piero della Francesca and Perugino: Cult and Continuity at Sansepolcro." Stadel-Jahrbuch 17 (1999): 163-208.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 176, fig. 26
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Gordon, Dillian, and National Gallery (Great Britain). The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings. London: National Gallery, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 352-354, fig. 12
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National Gallery of Art (U.S.), and Miklós. Boskovits. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. Washington, New York: National Gallery of Art ; Distributed by Oxford University Press, 2003.
page number: Mentioned: p. 621
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Gardner von Teuffel, Christa. From Duccio’s Maestà to Raphael’s Transfiguration: Italian Altarpieces and Their Settings. London: Pindar Press, 2005.
page number: Mentioned: p. 417; Reproduced: p. 447, fig. 26
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Israels, Machtelt. "Sansetta, St. Augustine, 1439-1444." In Entre Tradition et Modernité: Peinture Italienne Des XIVe et XVe SièCles = from Gothic Tradition to the Renaissance: Italian Painting from the 14th and 15th Centuries, 174-184.Paris: G. Sarti, 2008.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 179-180, fig. 1
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Israëls, Machtelt. Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. Florence, Leiden: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Primavera Press, 2009.
page number: Reproduced: p. 162-164, figs. 110, 112-115, Vol. I; Mentioned: p. 194-197, Vol. I; Reproduced: p. 204-209, pl. I, III, V, Vol. I; Mentioned: p. 220, Vol. I; Mentioned and reproduced: p. 247-248, fig. 203, Vol. I; Mentioned and reproduced: p. 534-537, fig. 21.1, 21.2, 21.4-21.7, Vol. II
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Fliegel, Stephen N. The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. Cleveland, Ohio, Munich: Cleveland Museum of Art; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 110-111, no. 15
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