Portrait of Michele Olivieri
Attribution
Master of the Castello Nativity
(Italian (Florence), ca. 1445 - 1475)
Previous Attribution
Domenico Veneziano
(Italian, ca.1400-1461)
CultureItalian
Dateca. 1450
MediumTempera on panel
Dimensions17 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (45.1 x 32.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 25 x 19 1/2 x 3 in. (63.5 x 49.5 x 7.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 25 x 19 1/2 x 3 in. (63.5 x 49.5 x 7.6 cm)
InscribedInscribed lower edge: "Michael Olivieri Mathei Filivs"
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number83.584
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, 310, ROW 12
Label TextAttributed to the Master of the Castello Nativity Italian, Florence, ca. 1445–75 Portrait of Michele Olivieri, ca. 1450 Tempera on wood Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 83.584 ProvenanceJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Laurence Rockefeller; Mrs. Richard Chasen; E.V. Thaw and Co.; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1975; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to The Chrysler Museum, 1983. Exhibition History"From Veneziano to Pollock: Ten Masterworks," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, May 18 - June 24, 1984. (Exhib. cat. 5-7). "Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting," The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, Sept. 28, 2013 - Jan. 13, 2014.Published ReferencesHellmut Wohl. _The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano_. New York, 1980, 138-140, plate 172. David W. Steadman, Director. "Ten Masterworks!" _Chrysler Museum Bulletin_. Vol. 14, no. 6. Norfolk: Chrysler Museum. 06/1984. European painting entries by Thomas W. Sokolowski and American painting entries by Thomas W. Styron. _From Veneziano to Pollock: Masterworks Donated to the Chrysler Museum by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._. Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum. 1984: pp. 5-7. *See for further references (also check the Bib tab). Supplément. "La Chronique des Arts: Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1984," _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_. VI Période, Tome CV, no. 1394. 03/1985: 26-75. Jefferson C. Harrison. "Italian Art - Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century," _The Chrysler Museum Gallery Guide_. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum. 1987. No. 2, 2. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1991, #2, 3. Miklos Boskovits. _Arte Cristiana_ (journal), Vol. 85, Issue 781, July-August 1997. "Studi sul ritratto fiorentino quattrocentesco." p. 255-263, 335-342. p. 357, fig. 4. Miklós Boskovits and David Alan Brown, et al. _Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century_ (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003), 266-270, fig. I. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 22, fig. 9. Luis Nieto Fernandez, _The Painted Parapet: Structure and Symbolism_ (Madrid: Payxart Investigacion, 2017), p. 150, fig. 224. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, _Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting_ (Seattle: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, with Marquand Books, Inc., 2013) 73. Duncan Bull, _The Architect and the Musician: Piero di Cosimo's Portraits of Giuliano da Sangallo and His Father_ (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2013) 24, fig. 14.
