The Battle of Pharsalus and the Death of Pompey

c. 1455

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni (Italian, 1415/17-1465)
Marco del Buono Giamberti (Italian, 1403-1489)

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
Title: The Battle of Pharsalus and the Death of Pompey
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1450–1460
Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 40.5 × 127.5 cm (16 × 50 1/4 in.); Framed: 67.3 × 151.8 cm (26 1/2 × 59 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of C. Ruby Sears in honor of Richard Warren Sears II
Reference Number: 1974.394
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Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol.10 (The Hague, 1928), pp. 554–55.
Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni (Oxford, 1974), p. 75, under no. 57.
Ellen Callmann, “Roman Virtue and Renaissance Marriage,” The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas 6, 8/9 (1991/1992), pp. 30–32, 35–36, figs. 13 and 15.
Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 15–17, ill.
Ellen Callmann, “Jacopo del Sellaio, the Orpheus Myth, and Painting for the Private Citizen,” Folia Historiae Artium, n.s. 4 (1998), p. 149.
Caroline Campbell, Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests, exh. cat., The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009, pp. 37, 98, under no. 8.

Richard Warren Sears II (d. 1949), Chicago, by 1923 [Sears lent the painting and 1974.393 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1923, see correspondence in curatorial file]; at Sears’s death to his widow, C. Ruby Sears (d. 1974); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1974.

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