Italian Paintings 1250-1450
Subtitle: In the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780271025377
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Painting & paintings; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Italy; Pennsylvania; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; European; History - Medieval; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Catalogs; Painting, Italian; Painting, Medieval; Painting, Renaissance
Description: "When the Philadelphia lawyer John G. Johnson began to collect art in the late nineteenth century, he made Italian paintings from the early Renaissance a specialty. Eventually Johnson bequeathed 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 attribution, iconography, and patronage is complemented by the technical study of the paintings he conducted with Mark S. Tucker, the Museum's Vice Chairman of Conservation and Senior Conservator of Paintings."

"Strehlke's introduction sheds new light on Johnson's collecting and traces the history of the acquisition, conservation, and installation of the John G. Johnson and Philadelphia Museum of Art paintings. Subsequent entries situate detailed discussions of the pictures within the context of the artists' biographies. All the paintings are furnished with a full description, technical report, provenance, art historical commentary, discussion of related works, comparative illustrations, and bibliography. This extensively illustrated book also provides an appendix of punch marks and a bibliography of some 2,500 entries."--Jacket.