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Publication Received
Studying and Conserving Paintings: Occasional Papers on the Samuel H. Kress Collection
08/2008 | 1265 | 150
Pages: 558
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Reviewer:
Cala-Lesina, Gabriela (Cala-Lesina, Gabriela)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
print:
Conservation
subjects:
Conservation / Paintings / Conservators / Restoration (process)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Studying and Conserving Paintings: Occasional Papers on the Samuel H. Kress Collection | :
Book Review
The Second Volume of the Kress Catalogue
07/1969 | 796 | 111
Pages: 454-458
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Reviewer:
Zeri, Federico (Zeri, Federico; Zeri, Professor)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
places:
Italy / United States
subjects:
Italian painting / Catalogues
subjects:
Attributions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Paintings in the Kress Collection - Italian Schools XV-XVI Century | author: Shapley, Fern Rusk
Illustrations
Attributed works:
50. Madonna and Child with Angels. Piedmontese School, Early Sixteenth Century. Panel, 135 by 51 cm. (Formerly Goldschmidt Collection, Berlin.)
Attributed works:
51. The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio. Panel, Diameter, 103.5 cm. (Manchester City Art Galleries.)
Attributed works:
52. The Adoration of the Child. Workshop of Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio. Panel. (Size and Whereabouts Unknown.)
Attributed works:
53. Portrait of a Woman, by a Follower of Leonardo da Vinci. Panel, 42.5 by 29.8 cm. (John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia.)
Attributed works:
54. Martyrdom of a Saint, Attributed to Baldassarre Peruzzi. Fresco. (Castello di Belcaro.)
Attributed works:
55. Portrait(?) of a Woman, by a Follower of Leonardo da Vinci. Panel, 61 by 51 cm. (City Art Museum, St Louis.)
Western art unattributed:
47. The Presentation in the Temple. Venetian School, Fifteenth Century. Panel. (Size and Whereabouts Unknown.)
Western art unattributed:
48. The Sermon on the Mount. Venetian School, Fifteenth Century. Panel, 17 by 14 cm. (Formerly Collection I. Nunes, Rome.)
Western art unattributed:
49. Christ among the Doctors. Venetian School, Fifteenth Century. Panel. (Size and Whereabouts Unknown.)
Western art unattributed:
56. A Saint before His Judges. Italian School, Sixteenth Century. Panel, 23 by 35.5 cm. (Formerly Chiesa Collection, Milan.)
Western art unattributed:
57. Martyrdom of St Sebastian. Italian School, Sixteenth Century. Panel, 23 by 35.5 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon.)
Letter
Early Italian Pictures in the Kress Foundation
11/1967 | 776 | 109
Pages: 646+649
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Author:
Davis, Mary M. (Davis, Mary M.)
Author:
Zeri, Federico (Zeri, Federico; Zeri, Professor)
Subjects
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
subjects:
Displays
Book Review
Early Italian Pictures in the Kress Collection
08/1967 | 773 | 109
Pages: 472-477
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Reviewer:
Zeri, Federico (Zeri, Federico; Zeri, Professor)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Kress, Samuel H.
dates:
1200-1499
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
places:
Italy / Florence / Siena
subjects:
Collections, Private / Catalogues
subjects:
Italian painting
subjects:
Attributions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Paintings from the Samuel Kress Collection - Italian Schools XIII-XV Century | author: Shapley, Fern Rusk
Illustrations
Attributed works:
51. Bishop Saint. From the Circle of Niccolò di Segna. Panel, 30 by 20 cm. (Formerly Collection Mrs. J. Lindon Smith, Dublin, New Hampshire.)
Attributed works:
52. St John the Evangelist. From the Circle of Niccolò di Segna. Panel, c.35 by 30 cm. (Collection F. M. Perkins, Assisi.)
Attributed works:
53. St James the Great. From the Circle of Niccolò di Segna. Panel, c.35 by 30 cm. (Collection F. M. Perkins, Assisi.)
Attributed works:
54. St Christopher. From the Circle of Niccolò di Segna. Panel, 33 by 20 cm. (Formerly Private Collection, Rome.)
Attributed works:
56. Betrayal of Christ. by Paolo Schiavo. Panel 36.5 by 30.5 cm. (Private Collection, Florence.)
Attributed works:
57. Christ before Caiaphas, by Paolo Schiavo. Panel, 36.5 by 31 cm. (Collection Mrs Carmen Gronau, London.)
Attributed works:
58. Resurrection, by Paolo Schiavo. Panel, 34 by 28 cm. (Formerly Private Collection, London.)
Attributed works:
60. The Assumption of the Virgin Appearing to St Catherine, by Gerolamo di Benvenuto. Panel, 30 by 22 cm. (Museum, Berlin-Dahlem.)
Attributed works:
61. St Lawrence, by Guidoccio Cozzarelli. Panel (Including Frame), 30.5 by 18.5 cm. (Collection A. Saibene, Milan.)
Western art unattributed:
55. Crucifixion. Venetian School, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century. Panel, 17 by 18 cm. (Formerly Collection D'Atri, Paris.)
Western art unattributed:
59. Fragments of a Polyptych. Tuscan School, Fourteenth Century. Overall Size, 198 by 198 cm. (Formerly Collection Volterra, Florence.)
Book Review
The Kress Bronzes
07/1966 | 760 | 108
Pages: 374-375
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Reviewer:
Raggio, Olga (Raggio, Olga)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Kress, Samuel H.
dates:
1400-1599
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
places:
Italy / United States
subjects:
Sculpture / Bronzes / Italian / Renaissance / Plaquettes
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Renaissance Bronzes in the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars | author: Pope-Hennessy, John , author: Pope-Hennessy, John
Book Review
Tapestries from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - The History of Constantine the Great Designed by Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona
05/1965 | 746 | 107
Pages: 262-263
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Reviewer:
Vitzthum, Walter (W. V.) (Vitzthum, Walter (W. V.); Vitzthum, Dr.)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
artists:
Cortona, Pietro da
collectors and dealers:
Kress, Samuel H.
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
places:
Italy / United States / Netherlands
subjects:
Textiles / Tapestries / Iconography
subjects:
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, d. 337
subjects:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
subjects:
Gobelins Manufactory
subjects:
Barberini Tapestry Manufactory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Tapestries from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - The History of Constantine the Great Designed by Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona | author: DuBon, David
Article
Leon Battista Alberti as a Painter
07/1962 | 712 | 104
Pages: 278+280-287
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Author:
Parronchi, Alessandro (Parronchi, Alessandro)
Subjects
artists:
Carnevale, Fra
artists:
Alberti, Leon Battista
dates:
1400-1499
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
places:
Italy / Florence
places:
United States / Washington DC
sources:
De Pictura (1435)
subjects:
Italian painting / Italian architecture / Attributions
subjects:
Architectural paintings / Mary, Virgin: Annunciation
subjects:
Perspective / Renaissance
subjects:
Art theory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Annunciation, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels'. Panel, 88 by 63 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection).
Attributed works:
11. Detail from the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels' (Here Identified with Leon Battista Alberti). Panel. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)
Attributed works:
13. Detail from the Nativity of the Virgin, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels' (Here Identified with Leon Battista Alberti). Panel. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.)
Attributed works:
14. Detail from the Annunciation, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels' (Here Identified with Leon Battista Alberti). Panel. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection.)
Attributed works:
15. Detail from the Tabernacle of the Crucifix, by Michelozzo. 1448. (S. Miniato al Monte, Florence.)
Attributed works:
2. Detail from the Nativity of the Virgin, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels' (Here Identified with Leon Battista Alberti). Panel. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.)
Attributed works:
3. Detail from the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels' (Here Identified with Leon Battista Alberti). Panel. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)
Attributed works:
4. Detail from the Nativity of the Virgin, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels' (Here Identified with Leon Battista Alberti). Panel. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.)
Attributed works:
5. Detail from Self Portrait, by Leon Battista Alberti, Showing the Alberti Emblem of the 'Winged Eye'. Bronze Plaque. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection.)
Attributed works:
6. Detail from the Frieze in the Tabernacle of the SS. Annunziata. Completed in 1448 by Pagno di Lapo Portigiani. (SS. Annunziata, Florence.)
Attributed works:
7. Detail from the Arco del Cavallo, Ferrara, by Leon Battista Alberti.
Attributed works:
9. Detail from the Arco del Cavallo, Ferrara, by Leon Battista Alberti.
Attributed works:
A. Perspective Layout of the Barberini Panels. Drawing by Giancarlo Del Francia.
Western art unattributed:
10. Capitals on the Portico of S. Jacopo sopr' Arno, Florence.
Western art unattributed:
12. Romanesque Capital. (SS. Apostoli, Florence.)
Western art unattributed:
8. S. Maria della Grazie al Ponte alla Carraia, Florence. Photograph Taken before 1867.
Editorial
The Samuel H. Kress Collection
07/1962 | 712 | 104
Pages: 278-280
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Subjects
artists:
Carnevale, Fra
artists:
Alberti, Leon Battista
dates:
1960-1969
dates:
1400-1499
museums and institutions:
Samuel H. Kress Collection
places:
Italy / United States / Washington DC
subjects:
Italian painting / Architectural paintings / Mary, Virgin: Annunciation / Attributions
subjects:
Art museums
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Annunciation, by the 'Master of the Barberini Panels'. Panel, 88 by 63 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection).
Article
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
04/1946 | 517 | 88
Pages: 80-85+87
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Author:
Douglas, R. Langton (Douglas, R. Langton; Douglas, Robert Langton; Douglas, Langton)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Kress, Samuel H.
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
places:
Italy / United States
subjects:
Samuel H. Kress Collection / Gifts / Italian painting
subjects:
Italian / Sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Madonna and Child with Queen Sancia, Saints and Angels. By Tino di Camaino. Marble, 51 by 38 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; Kress Collection)
Attributed works:
Plate II. A-Madonna and Child. By Lorenzo Ghiberti. Stucco. Height, 102.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate II. B-The Madonna of Humility. By Jacopo Della Quercia. Marble. Height, 58 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate II. C-St. Burchard of Wuerzburg. By Tilman Riemenschneider. Wood. Height, 81 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate III. A-Madonna and Child with Angels. By Giovanni Baronzio. Panel, 100.6 by 48 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate III. B-Madonna and Child Enthroned. By Margaritone D'Arezzo. Panel, 96.8 by 49 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate III. C-Madonna and Child in a Garden. By Cosimo Tura. Panel, 53.3 by 36.8 (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate III. D-Madonna and Child Enthroned with Donor. By Carlo Crivelli. Panel, 127 by 49.9 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate IV. A-God the Father Surrounded by Angels and Cherubim. By Francesco di Giorgio. Panel, 35.9 by 50.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate IV. B-The Adoration of the Child. By Sandro Botticelli. 151 by 132 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Attributed works:
Plate IV. C-The Gathering of Manna. By Bacchiacca. Panel, 111.4 by 95.3 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. D-The Holy Trinity. Nottingham School, Late Thirteenth Century. Alabaster. Height, 81 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Recent Additions to the Kress Collection