id:			142293
accession number:	1966.125
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.125
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:15.314000

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi, 1680s. Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634–1705). Oil on canvas; framed: 273 x 229 x 10 cm (107 1/2 x 90 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 239.4 x 195.7 cm (94 1/4 x 77 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1966.125

title:				The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi
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creation date:			1680s
creation date earliest:		1680
creation date latest:		1689
current location:		217 Italian Baroque
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634–1705)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 273 x 229 x 10 cm (107 1/2 x 90 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 239.4 x 195.7 cm (94 1/4 x 77 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed lower center:  Jordanus  F.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage
	opening date:   1971-07-13T04:00:00
	<i>Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection (Florence, Italy), sold through Heim Gallery (Paris, France), to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 116
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n140

	Ferrari, Oreste, and Giuseppe Scavizzi. <em>Luca Giordano</em>. Napoli, Italy: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1966.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 91-92, 94; Reproduced fig. 181
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	Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of The</em> <em>Cleveland Museum of Art LIII</em>, no. 7 (September, 1966): 181-285.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 214; Mentioned: p. 279, no. 59
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	Young, M. S. “Letter from U.S.A: Great Guns at Detroit and Cleveland.” <em>Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors</em> 84 (September 1966): 237–38.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 239-240; Reproduced: P. 241
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	"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." <em>The Art Quarterly</em> XXIX, no. 3-4 (1966): 289-318.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 301
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	Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Luca Giordano: The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Francis of Assisi." <em>The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV</em>, no. 2 (February, 1968): 39-52.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cover, fig. 1
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 116
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n140

	Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. <em>Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections</em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 85, p. 398, p. 574
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	Trkulja, Silvia Meloni. "Luca Giordano a Firenze."<em> Paragone: Mensile di Arte Figurativa e Letteratura </em>XXIII, no. 267 (May 1972): 25-74.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 52, n. 51
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 140
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n160

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 349; Reproduced: p. 350
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	Ferrari, Oreste, Luca Giordano, and Giuseppe Scavizzi. <em>Luca Giordano: l'opera completa</em>. Napoli, Italy: Electa, 1992.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 80
	url:		

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