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The Dead Christ with Angels

c. 1580

Leandro Bassano

(Italian, 1557–1623)

Italy, 16th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 157 x 129.5 x 13 cm (61 13/16 x 51 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 123.3 x 96.5 cm (48 9/16 x 38 in.)

Holden Collection 1916.806

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Description

In this scene, two angels are shown attending to the body of Christ after his death. The artist, Leandro Bassano, came from a family of painters—both his father and grandfather were artists, as were his brothers, Francesco and Gerolamo. Leandro worked primarily in Francesco's studio in Venice, which he took over after his brother's death in 1592. Leandro is best known as a portrait painter, working in a style often compared with that of the great Venetian artist, Tintoretto. Other versions of this painting are in the collections of the Galleria Colonna in Rome and the Civic Museum in Bassano del Grappa, the artist's birthplace.

Provenance

James Jackson Jarves;

Mrs. Liberty E. Holden,Cleveland, 1884, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.

Citations

Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 12-13, cat. no. 3 archive.org

G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. Mentioned: p. 19 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 420 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 98 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 98 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 114 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 306; Reproduced: p. 307

Exhibition history

Boston Foreign Art Exhibition, 1883-4, no. 429

Early Italian Paintings lent by Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1912, no. 2

The Inaugural Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916, no. 3

C.M.A. Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1936, no. 75

The Venetian Tradition, C.M.A., 1956, no. 3, p. 19. pl. XXIX

Museum of Bibilcal Art, NYC (2/11/2011 - 6/26/2011): "Venetian Sorrows: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Cristo Passo", ex. cat. no. 38, p. 144-145.

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).

Venetian Sorrows: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Cristo Passo. Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 11-June 12, 2011).

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