MASTER OF CHARLES III OF DURAZZO (ACTIVE IN FLORENCE C. 1380–1420)

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MASTER OF CHARLES III OF DURAZZO (ACTIVE IN FLORENCE C. 1380–1420)

The story of Lucretia - a cassone front

tempera, gold and silver on panel with pastille decorations

18 7/8 x 49 3/4 in. (48 x 126.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) Vincenzo Corsi, Florence by 1861.

Sir John Temple Leader (1810-1903) from 1879, Castello di Vincigliata, Fiesole, and by descent to the following,

Richard Luttrell Pilkington Bethell, 3rd Lord Westbury (1852-1930).

Baron Alberto Fassini (1875-1942), Rome, before 1926.

Acquired by the present owner in 2016.



Literature

G. Marcotti, Vincigliata, Florence, 1879, p. 120.

L. Scott, The Castle of Vincigliata, Florence, 1897, p. 155.

A. Schiaparelli, La casa fiorentina e i suoi arredi nei secoli XIV e XV, Florence, 1908, p. 225.

P. Schubring, Cassoni, Leipzig, 1923, 2nd edition, I, p. 223, no. 21, fig. III.

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1927, IX, p. 98.

J. Miziolek, 'Florentina Libertas. La Storia di Lucrezia Romana e la cacciata del Tiranno sui cassoni del primo Rinascimento’, in Prospettiva, 83-84, 1996, pp. 160-166.

J. Miziolek, Soggetti Classici sui Cassoni Fiorentini alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Warsaw, 1996, pp. 29, 33-37.

J. Miziolek, 'Florentine marriage chest depicting the story of Lucrezia and the war with Giangaleazzo Visconti', in Art and Politics, Warsaw, 1999, pp. 35-37.

L. Sbaraglio, L'origine dei cassoni istoriati nella Pittura Fiorentina, in Virtù d’amore: Pittura nuziale nel Quattrocento fiorentino, exhibition catalogue, Florence and Milan, 2010, pp. 105-106.

L. Sbaraglio, Le Opere e i Giorni. Exempla virtutis, favole antiche e vita quotidiana nel racconto dei cassoni rinascimentali, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 2015, p. 94.



Exhibited

Florence, Casa Guastalla, Esposizione di oggetti d’arte del Medio Evo e dell’epoca del Risorgimento dell’arte fatta a Firenze in casa Guastalla, 1861, no. 18.



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