Saint Barbara
Unknown Burgundian Master, French, active late 15th century
about 1470-1490
Wood with original and later polychromy
Overall: 37 1/2 in. (95.3 cm)
Overall: 37 1/2 in. (95.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Edward A. Hansen and John Philip Kassebaum, Class of 1985P
S.981.102
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
ARTH 33, Gothic Art and Architecture, Jane Carroll, Spring 2014
ARTH 33, Gothic Art and Architecture, Jane Carroll, 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
ARTH 15.1, Gothic Art, Jane Carroll, Spring 2019
HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
Exhibition History
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
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.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-August 15, 2006.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 19, 2001-July 28, 2002.
Publication History
Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America, I. The New England Museums, New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989, p 344-345.
T. Barton Thurber, "European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art", Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 33, ill., no. 4.
Provenance
Philip Kassebaum and Edward A. Hansen; given to present collection, 1981.
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