Italian Paintings 1250-1450 PDF

Co-published with the Philadelphia Museum of Art

When the Philadelphia lawyer John G. Johnson began to collect art in the late nineteenth century, he defied contemporary taste by acquiring Italian paintings from the early Renaissance. He eventually donated his distinguished collection to the City of Philadelphia, and it is now housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Although there have been several catalogues of these paintings, including one by Bernhard Berenson in 1913, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Adjunct Curator of the Johnson Collection, has prepared the first complete scholarly examination. His discussion of such art historical questions as dating and attribution combines extensive archival research with information he gained through his technical study of the paintings with Mark S. Tucker, the Museums Vice Chairman of Conservation and Senior Conservator of Paintings.

Strehlkes introduction sheds new light on Johnsons collecting and traces the history of the acquisition, conservation, and installation of the Philadelphia paintings. Subsequent chapters situate detailed discussions of the pictures within the context of richly detailed biographies. All the paintings are furnished with a full description

...catalogue of the Italian paintings that formed part of a large collection donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1917, one of the most important collections of Italian painting in the United Sta. Italian paintings 1250-1450. In the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Autore: Strehlke C. B. Anno: 2005 Argomento: Pittura Periodo: Gotico.