Master of the Gothic Buildings (Jacopo Foschi?)
(active in Florence between 1485 and 1520)
SAINT FRANCIS PREACHING BEFORE POPE HONORIUS III
THE SERMON OF SAINT FRANCIS
a pair of paintings, tempera on canvas, 15.5x33.5 cm
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SAN FRANCESCO PREDICA DAVANTI A PAPA ONORIO III
PREDICA DI SAN FRANCESCO D'ASSISI
coppia di dipinti, tempera su tela, cm 15,5x33,5
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Provenance
- Shropshire, Condover Hall, R. Cholmondeley Collection;
- London, Christie's, 6 March 1897, lot. 102;
- London, Sotheby's, 11 June 1969, lot. 215;
- London, Christie's, 16 July 1970, lot. 235;
- Private collection.
Literature
- E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo, New York 1976, p. 164, nos. 94-96;
- C. Daly, Dans l'atelier de Sandro Botticelli: l'exemple du Maître des bâtiments gothiques, in Botticelli. Artista & Designer, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Museum Jacquemart-André, 10 September 2021 - 24 January 2022), edited by A. Debenedetti and P. Curie, Bruxelles 2021, pp. 69-70, 74, 75 note 14.
Photographic references
- Bologna, Fototeca di Federico Zeri, Everett Fahy Collection, no. 409403 (Bartolomeo di Giovanni, Saint Francis preaching before Pope Honorius III);
- Bologna, Fototeca di Federico Zeri, Everett Fahy Collection, no. 409404 (Bartolomeo di Giovanni, The sermon of Saint Francis).