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Image of Saint George

Bookmark: https://collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/info/15191

Saint George

Cosmè Tura (AKA Cosimo Tura), Italian, (ca. 1430–1495)

Creation date: ca. 1475-1476
Creation place: Italy

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on panel
Credit Line: Gift of Anne R. and Amy Putnam
Accession Number: 1944.3
State/Province: Ferrara
Dimensions: 15 1/4 in. x 11 7/16 in. (38.74 cm x 29.05 cm)

Provenance

Anne R. and Amy Putnam, San Diego, California ( - June 30, 1944)

Church of San Giorgio, Ferrara, Italy (1470s - 1709)

Adalbert Baron von Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic (1709 - 1905)

Adalbert Baron von Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic (1905 - 1905)

Adalbert Baron von Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic (1905 - 1929)

Giuseppe Bellesi, London, England (1929 - 1939)

Cassier, Berlin, Germany (1929 - 1929)

Messrs. Hudson, New York, New York (1939 - 1944)

Jacob M. Heimann, New York, New York (1944 - 1944)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (June 30, 1944 - )

Label Copy

This image of Saint George is a fragment of a large altarpiece by Cosmè Tura, the principal member of the Ferrarese school of painting. Painted for the Roverella chapel in the church of San Giorgio fuori le Mura in Ferrara, the altarpiece was among Tura’s masterpieces, but when damaged during a struggle between Papal and Prussian troops in 1709, it was dismantled and sold. The central section, showing the enthroned Madonna and Child, is now in the National Gallery, London, while the right wing of the triptych, showing Saints Paul and Maurelius with the patron Niccolò Roverella, is in the Colonna collection in Rome. The left wing likewise included standing saints and an image of Lorenzo Roverella knocking on the gates of Paradise. This head of Saint George, however, is the only part of that panel to survive. Additional sections from the upper and lower parts of the altarpiece are now in Paris, Boston, and New York.
Last Updated: 7/11/2018

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Cosme Tura: La Ricomposizione di una Storia Infranta , 10/1/2000 - 12/1/2000

Cosme Tura and Ferrara: A Forgotten Renaissance Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , 1/30/2002 - 5/12/2002

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 205

Julia Gethman Andrews (DUP). A Catalogue of European Paintings, 1300-1870 San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1947
Page Number: 37, 38, 39, Figure Number: 38

Monica Moleni. Cosmè Tura Federico Motta Editore S.p.A.. Milano, Italia, November 1999
Page Number: 110, 112, 118, 119, 125, 126, Figure Number: 110, 118

Monica Moleni. Cosmè Tura Federico Motta Editore S.p.A.. Milano, Italia, November, 1999
Page Number: 232

Stephen J. Campbell. Cosmè Tura of Ferrara: Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut, 1997
Page Number: 106, 108, Figure Number: 86, 87

Eörsi Anna. Cosimo Tura Corvina Kiadó. Budapest, Hungary, 1979
Page Number: 19-20

Eörsi Anna. Cosimo Tura Corvina Kiadó. Budapest, Hungary, 1979
Page Number: 26, Figure Number: 26

Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance—Central Italian and North Italian Schools Phaidon Publishers Inc.. New York, New York, 1968
Page Number: 433

Eberhard Ruhmer. Tura: Phaidon Press Ltd. London, England, 1958
Page Number: 40

Eberhard Ruhmer. Tura: Phaidon Press Ltd. London, England, 1958
Page Number: 52, Figure Number: 52

Eberhard Ruhmer. Tura: Phaidon Press Ltd. London, England, 1958
Page Number: 176-177

Rosemarie Molajoli and . L'opera completa di Cosmè Tura: e i grandi pittori ferraresi del suo tempo, Rizzoli Editore. Milano, Italia, March 1974
Page Number: 85, 86, Figure Number: 9

Dr. Alfred M. Frankfurter, ed. Art News The Art Foundation, Inc.. New York, New York, January 1, 1945-January 14, 1945
Page Number: 41

Arthur Millier. The Art Digest The Art Digest, Inc.. New York, New York, January 1, 1948
Page Number: 9

Dr. Alfred M. Frankfurter, ed. Art News The Art Foundation, Inc.. New York, New York, October 15, 1944-October 31, 1944
Page Number: 8, Figure Number: 8

Hans Tietze. The Art Quarterly The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, Michigan, Winter 1944
Page Number: 64, 65-66, Figure Number: 64

Stephen J. Campbell. Cosmè Tura: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
Page Number: 219, 222, 225 note 4, 233, 234, 235, Figure Number: 95 (detail), 13

Stephen J. Campbell. Cosmè Tura: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
Page Number: ix

Stephen J. Campbell. Cosmè Tura: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
Page Number: 21-22

Jill Dunkerton. Cosmè Tura: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
Page Number: 140

Alan Chong. Cosmè Tura: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
Page Number: 271, 272, Figure Number: 113, 114

Stephen J. Campbell. The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art CAFA. Watertown, Massachusetts, 2002
Page Number: 289, Figure Number: 6

Mr. Steven Kern. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 2003
Page Number: 103, Figure Number: 103

Magali Bourbon, ed. Saint Jacques de Cosmè Tura: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. Caen, France, 2006
Page Number: 18, 19, Figure Number: 13

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