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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Northhampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "Renaissance Bronzes in American Collections," 9 April – 3 May 1960, no. 17.

Augsburg, Ausstellung im Rathaus, "Welt im Umbruch, Augsburg zwischen Renaissance und Barock," 28 June – 28 September 1980, no. 577.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, "The Genius of Venice, 1500–1600," 25 November 1983 – 11 March 1984, cat. S42.

Berlin, Alten Museum, "Von allen seiten schön, Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock," 31 October 1995 – 28 January 1996, no. 86.

Trent, Castello del Buonconsiglio, "La bellissima maniera, Alessandro Vittoria e la scultura del Cinquecento," 25 June – 26 September 1999, no. 84.

Publication History

Georg Lill, Hans Fugger (1531–1598) und die Kunst (Leipzig, 1908), pp. 32, 153–55.

Leo Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance (Vienna, 1921), p. 501.

Leo Planiscig, "Alessandro Vittorias Verkündigungsrelief für Hans Fugger," Jahrbuche der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 60 (1932), pp. 155–56, pl. XVL.

Leo Planiscig, "Alessandro Vittoria e la Pala Fugger," Rivista di Venezia 12, 1 (1933).

Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell’arte Italiana X, III (Milan, 1937), pp. 70, 116, 120, fig. 89.

Helen Comstock, "Bronze Relief by Alessandro Vittoria," The Connoisseur 111, 488 (1943), pp. 133–34.

Meyeric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, "A Masterpiece of Italian Renaissance Sculpture," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 1 (1943), pp. 4–7.

Francesco Cessi, Alessandro Vittoria, medaglista (1525–1608) (Trent, 1960), pp. 50–55, pl. 31.

Hans Huth, "Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA," Miscellanea bibliothecae hertzianae, edited by Leo Bruhns, Franz Graf, Wolff Metternich, and Ludwig Schudt (Munich, 1961), p. 518.

Manfred Leithe-Jasper, "Alessandro Vittoria," Mitteliungen der Gesellschaft für veregleichende kunstforschung in Wien: Auszüge aus kunsthistorischen Dissertationen Österreichischer Hochschulen seit 1956 16/17 (1963-1965), p. 32.

Michael Baxandall, "A Masterpiece by Hubert Gerhard," Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin 1, 2 (1965), p. 8.

Francesco Cessi, "Note sulla genesi iconografico–stilistica della pala bronzea di Alessandro Vittoria per Giovanni Fugger," Studi trenti di scienze storiche (1965), pp. 348–53.

Allen Wardwell and Mildred Davison, "Three Centuries of the Decorative Arts in Italy," Apollo 84, 55 (1966), pp. 180–81, 187, fig. 4.

Hildebrand Dussler, Reisen und Reisende in Bayerisch-Schwaben (Weissenhorn, 1968), p. 109.

Hans Habel, Landkreis Mindelheim (Munich, 1971), pp. 170, 186.

Denys Sutton, "Venetian Art at the Royal Academy," Apollo (1984), pp. 91, 95, fig. 30.

Michel Hochmann, Peintres et commanditaires à Venise, Collection de l’école Française de Rome 155 (Rome, 1992), p. 217.

Andrew John Martin, "Quellen zum Kunsthandel um 1550–1600: Die Frima Ott in Venedig," Kunstchronik 11 (1995), p. 535.

Andrew John Martin, "Jacopo Tintoretto: Dipinti per committenti tedeschi" Jacopo Tintoretto, nel quarto centenario della morte, edited by P. Rossi and L. Puppi (Venice, 1996), pp. 97, 99–100, no. 6.

Andrea Bacchi, La Scultura a Venezia da Sansovino a Canova (Milan, 2000), p. 802, fig. 177.

Ian Wardropper, "An Allegorical Bronze Statuette Newly Attributed to Ammanati," in Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, ed. Debra Pincus (Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 105-21, ifig. 3.

Ownership History

Commissioned by Hans Fugger from Allesandro Vittoria for the Fugger Family chapel, Schloss Kirchheim, Augsburg, 1580. Fugger family collection, Schloss Kirchheim, Augsburg, until demolition of the castle in the nineteenth century [according to Trent 1999 exh. cat.]. Fugger family collection, Augsburg, until 1908. German art market, 1930 [according to Berlin 1995/96 exh. cat.; and Trent 1999 exh. cat.]. Dr. Preston P. Satterwhite, New York, by 1932 [see sources cited above; Planiscig 1932; and two letters from Leo Planiscig to Preston Satterwhite, 16 December 1932 and 2 March 1933, in curatorial file]. French & Co., New York, by 1942. Sold by French & Co. to the Art Institute, 1942.