Antonello is one of the most fascinating geniuses of Italian painting. His career remains poorly documented, and the means by which he became adept at the Netherlandish technique remain somewhat conjectural
The two portraits that are usually considered earlier in date are in the Philadelphia
Inscription: [on black band against background] PADRE MIO SIENO SALVI CHOSTORO PEQUALI TU / VOLESTI CHIO PATISSI PASSIONE (My Father, let those be saved for whom you wished me to suffer the Passion); DOLCIXIMO FIGLIUOLO PELLAC: / TE CHIO TIDIE ABBI MIA DI CHOSTORO (Dearest Son, because of the milk that I gave you, have mercy on them)
Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
designs by Maxfield Parrish, for Edward Bok at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia
Until 1924, collection of Alexandre Merle de Massonneau, who acquired material from the Caucasus area of south Russia and Crimea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Leskov 2008, p. 1); acquired by the Museum in 1924, purchased from the Massonneau collection in Paris by John Marshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agent in Europe
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
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series, type 1 (E90-1) for the American Caramel Company American Caramel Company, Philadelphia
Until 1924, collection of Alexandre Merle de Massonneau, who acquired material from the Caucasus area of south Russia and Crimea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Leskov 2008, p. 1); acquired by the Museum in 1924, purchased from the Massonneau collection in Paris by John Marshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agent in Europe
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, p
Until 1924, collection of Alexandre Merle de Massonneau, who acquired material from the Caucasus area of south Russia and Crimea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Leskov 2008, p. 1); acquired by the Museum in 1924, purchased from the Massonneau collection in Paris by John Marshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agent in Europe
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, p
Detroit, 1917—Detroit, 1987
Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996. Lasky, Victor.
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