The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Inscriptions

Signed, top center: Dionisio Calvaert de Antversa; inscribed, top right, on scroll: Ecce Angnus [Dei]

Course History

ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Anna Minardi, Fall 2013

ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Jonathan Mullins, Fall 2013

ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014

FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015

ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015

HIST 43.2, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2015

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019

Exhibition History

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20, 2009-August 2013.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 1994-June 22, 1997.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 14, 2008.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2013-present.

Publication History

Leo Steinberg, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, 2nd edition, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, ill. p.400, fig. 13

Veronique Sulzer, sub-editor, Chronique des Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1995

Celide Masini, Gli splendori della Vergogna: La collezione dei dipinti dell'Opera Pia dei Poveri Vergognosi, Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1995, p. 21, p. 211, ill. p. 23

Upper Valley Magazine Preview of the Arts, Upper Valley Magazine, West Lebanon: Van Etten, Inc, 1994, ill. p. 65

T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.49.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 40, ill., no. 8.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 87, ill. plate no. 18.

Provenance

Galerie Gismondi, Paris, 1988; Private collection, France, date unknown; Sotheby's, sale no. 18, January 14, 1994; sold to Robert Dance, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1994.

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