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Lazarus and the Rich Man

c. 1550

Jacopo Bassano

(Italian, ca. 1510-1592)

Italy, 16th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 176 x 251 x 12 cm (69 5/16 x 98 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 146 x 221 cm (57 1/2 x 87 in.)

Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1939.68

Location

217 Italian Baroque

Description

The Biblical parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-21) tells of a man who feasted and celebrated every day, while a beggar named Lazarus sat starving nearby. Dogs came to lick the sores on the poor man's body. However, when the two men died, Lazarus was welcomed into heaven, while the rich man was consigned to hell.

Provenance
Estate of Dan Fellows Platt, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1939.
Dan Fellows Platt, 1873-1928 (Englewood, New Jersey), upon his death, held in trust by the estate
Simonetti (Rome, Italy) 1905
Citations
Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901. Mentioned: Vol. IX, pt. 4, P. 1147, 1252; Reproduced: P. 1149, fig. 812
Perkins, F. Mason "Dipinti Italiani nella Raccolta Platt." Rassegna d'Arte Antica e Moderna (1911): 145-149. Mentioned: P. 147, n. 2
Brown, Alice Van Vechten, and William Rankin. A Short History of Italian Painting. London, United Kingdom: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1914. Reproduced: p. 343
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, and Jessie Niles Burness. Sculpture and Mural Paintings in the Beautiful Courts, Colonnades and Avenues of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco 1915. San Francisco: Robert A. Reid, official view Book publisher, 1915. Reproduced: no. 4009, vol. I; p. 456 vol. II
Perkins, F. Mason "Miscellanea." Rassegna d'Arte Antica e Moderna (1915): 121-125. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 121-122
Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Pietro de'Marescalchi detto lo Spada." Belvedere VIII (1929): 211-225. Mentioned: P. 214
Venturi, Adolfo. "Jacopo Bassano." L'Arte XXXII, no. 16 (1929): 107-125. Mentioned: P. 117-121; Reproduced: Fig. 8
Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Bologna: Casa Apollo, 1931. Mentioned: P. 343
Francis, Henry S. "Lazarus and the Rich Man by Jacopo Bassano." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXVI no.10 (December, 1939): 155-158. Reproduced: p. 156
Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 56 archive.org
Longhi, Roberto. "Calepino Veneziano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte II (1948): 41-55. Mentioned: P. 54
Magagnato, Licisco. "In Margine alla Mostra dei Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte VI (1952): 220-229. Mentioned: P. 226; reproduced: P. 225, fig. 240
Magagnato, Licisco. "Jacopo Bassano intorno al 1540." Critica Critica d'Arte No. 13-14 (1956): 103-106. Mentioned: P. 106; Reproduced: Pl. 110, 111
Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen, eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Budapest, Hungary: Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1956. Reproduced: p. 369, vol. I
Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Francesco Vecellio e Jacopo Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XI (1957): 91-96. Mentioned: P. 96
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957. Reproduced: p. 17. vol. !, p. 1197, vol. II
Podesta, Attilio. "La Mostra di Jacopo Bassano." Emporium CXXVI, no. 7 (July 1957): 3-23. Reproduced: P. 14
Muraro, Michelangelo. "The Jacopo Bassano Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 99, no. 654 (September 1957): 291-99. Mentioned: P. 295-296; reproduced: fig. 1 www.jstor.org
Zampetti, Pietro. Jacopo Bassano. Roma, Italy: Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1958. Reproduced: p. 36, pl. XLII-XLIV
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 421 archive.org
Nicolson, Benedict. Hendrick Terbrugghen. London, United Kingdom: L. Humphries, 1958. Reproduced: p. 102
Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Mentioned: Vol. II, p. 403
Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Milano: Ceschina, 1960. Mentioned: Vol. I, p. 65-66; 84; 90; 95, n.48; 96, n. 57; 97; 166; 317; Reproduced: Vol. II, pls. 94-98
Askew, Pamela. "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti." The Art Bulletin 43, no. 1 (March 1961): 21-45. Mentioned: P. 32 www.jstor.org
Jaffe, Michael. “Cleveland Museum of Art: The Figurative Arts of the West, c. 1400-1800.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 457–467. Mentioned: P. 467
Ballarin, Alessandro. "L'Orto del Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XVIII (1964): 55-72. Mentioned: P. 66-67; reproduced: fig. 72
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
Tomory, P. A. "Profane Love in Italian Early and High Baroque Painting, The Transmission of Emotive Experience." In Essays Presented to Rudolf Wittkower on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. In Two Parts. Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard & Milton J. Lewineeds.,182-187. [London]: Phaidon Press, 1967. Mentioned: Vol. II, P. 185; reproduced: XXV, pl. 3
Committee to Rescue Italian Art, and Wildenstein and Company. The Italian Heritage; An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent from American Collections for the Benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, May 17-August 29, 1967, Wildenstein. New York, NY: Wildenstein Galleries. Reproduced: p. 27
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. Reproduced: no. 141
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
Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione ad un Catalogo dei Disegni di Jacopo Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXIII (1969): 85-114. Mentioned: P. 104, 106; reproduced: fig. 372
Ballarin, Alessandro. "Un Ritratto Inedito del Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXV (1971): 268-271. Mentioned: P. 270-271; reproduced: fig. 372
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Reproduced: p. 18, 279,573
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
Bialostocki, Jan. "Le Vocabulaire Visuel de Jacopo Bassano et son Stilus Humilis." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXXI (1978): 169-173. Mentioned: P. 170-171; reproduced: fig. 1
Larousse (Firm). Larousse dictionary of painters. London, United Kingdom: Hamlyn, 1981. Reproduced: p. 15
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. 304-306; Reproduced: p. 304
Kitaj, R. B., and Timothy Hyman. "A Return to London" IN Kitaj Paintings, Drawings, Pastels. John Ashebury, Joe Shannon, Jane Livingston, 41. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1983. Mentioned: p. 41
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo e gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte. The Age of Caravaggio. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.
Brown, Beverly Louise, Paola Marini, and Livia Alberton Vinco Da Sesso. Jacopo Bassano, c. 1510-1592. Bologna, Italy: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1992. Mentioned: p. 62; Reproduced: p. 63
Bortolotli, Luca. "Jacopo Bassano 1992." Venezia Cinquecento IV (1992): 163-194. Reproduced:P. 175, fig. 7
"1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. Mentioned: p. 247 www.jstor.org
Hadjinicolaou, Nicos. O Gkreko stin Italia kai i italiki techni. Athina, Greece: Ioniki Trapeza, 1995. Reproduced: p. 100, pl. 1
Ballarin, Alessandro. Jacopo Bassano. Cittadella Padova, Italy: Bertoncello, 1995. Reproduced: p. 36
Aikema, Bernard. Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, Ca. 1535-1600. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1996. Reproduced: p. 50, fig. 37
Brown, Patricia Fortini. The Renaissance in Venice: A World Apart. London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. Reproduced: p. 108, no. 73
Gutbrod, Helga. "'Samson and Delila': Rembrandts Grisaille im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam." In Festschrift für Christian Lenz: von Duccio bis Beckmann ; anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstages am 11. Mai 1998. Billeter, Felix, Helga Gutbrod, Christian Lenz, and Andrea Pophanken, 29-43. Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag Blick in die Welt, 1998. Reproduced: P. 31, no. 2
Calı̀, Maria. La pittura del Cinquecento. Torino, Italy: UTET, 2000. Reproduced: p. 296
Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 19; p. 85, fig. 78
Hornik, Heidi J., and Mikeal C. Parsons. Illuminating Luke. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003. Reproduced: p. 84, fig. 42
Fontana, Renzo. "Jacopo Bassano a Vicenza. La pala de Sant'Eleuterio: questioni iconografiche e cronologiche." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 61 (2004): 83-95. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 86, fig. 7
Brucher, Günter. Geschichte der Venezianischen Malerei. Wien: Böhlau, 2007. Reproduced: p. 364, Abb. 202
Dal Pozzolo, Enrico Maria. Pittura veneta. Milano, Italy: 24 ore cultura, 2010. Mentioned: p. 215-217; Reproduced: fig. 84
Bolandrini, Beatrice. "I Palazzi Visconti a Brignano Gera D'adda." Lo Spazio Del Collezionismo Nello Stato Di Milano (secoli Xvii - Xviii) / a Cura Di Andrea Spiriti (2013): 247-302. Mentioned: P. 265
Exhibition history

American Art Dealers Association Exhibition. Los Angeles, CA: (1929).

Exhibition of Four Outstanding Venetian Canvases. Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH: (1938).

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA: (August 1 to-August 31, 1938).

Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA: (June 24-July 24, 1939).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).

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

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