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Provenance

Part of the predella of the altarpiece commissioned 23 October 1461 for the altar of the Compagnia della Purificazione della Vergine (also called of San Marco or of San Zanobi) [Confraternity of the Purification of the Virgin] in the confraternity's meeting place near the church of San Marco, Florence;[1] transferred 1 May 1506 to the newly built Oratory of the confraternity across the street flanking San Marco,[2] and in 1570, possibly divided from the altarpiece, to the confraternity's new seat in Via San Gallo.[3] by 1757 the altarpiece, possibly no longer complete with predella, was in the refectory of the Ospedale dei Pellegrini (or del Melani) in Via San Gallo, where it remained until 1785.[4] marchese Alfonso Tacoli Canacci [1724-1801], Florence, by 1796; by inheritance to his nephew, Petro Tacoli [1773-1847], Modena.[5] Count Vittorio Cini [1885-1977], Venice, in the 1940s.[6] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York); sold June 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[7] gift 1952 to NGA.

Exhibition History

2002
Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497): allievo a Roma, maestro in Umbria, Museo Civico di San Francesco, Montefalco, 2002, no. 34, repro.

Bibliography

1796
Catalogue raisonné, ou description exacte de plusieurs excellens tableaux…dans un recueil appurtenant à monsieur le marquis Alphonse Tacoli Canacci à Florence. Parma, 1796: 28, no. 164.
1951
Comstock, Helen. “Additions to the Kress Collection.” Connoisseur 127 (September 1951): 66.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 34-35, repro., as Dance of Salome and Beheading of John the Baptist.
1951
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 50, no. 13, repro., as Dance of Salome and Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
1952
Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-Four Paintings from the Kress Collection.” Art News 21 (1952): 90.
1952
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 16 (1952): 90, repro. 87
1952
Shapley, Fern Rusk. "A Predella Panel by Benozzo Gozzoli." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 39 (February 1952):77-88, repro.
1954
Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. New York, 1954: pl. VI, fig. 20.
1956
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 16, color repro., as Dance of Salome and Beheading of Saint John the Baptist.
1957
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. London, 1957: 15, pl. 16.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 64, repro.
1959
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): pl. 16.
1961
Davies, Martin. National Gallery Catalogues. The Earlier Italian Schools. London, 1961: 74, 75 note 12.
1961
Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 29, color repro. pl. 26.
1962
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1963
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1963
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1965
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1966
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1966
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1968
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1972
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1975
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1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:229-230; 2:pl. 156.
1979
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1980
Hausamann, Torsten. “Die tanzende Salome in der Kunst von der christlichen Frühzeit bis dem 1500. Ikonographische Studien.” Ph.D. diss., Zurich University, 1980: 431.
1983
Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480 in Aid of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Exh. cat. Matthiesen Fine Art, London, 1983: 50.
1983
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1984
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1985
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1985
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1985
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1990
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1990
Merkel, Kerstin. Salome. Ikonographie im Wandel. Frankfurt, 1990: 60, 323.
1992
Padoa Rizzo, Anna. Benozzo Gozzoli. Catalogo completo. Florence, 1992: 72, 74, cat. 34.
1992
Zeri, Federico, ed. Pinacoteca di Brera. Scuole dell’Italia centrale e meridionale. Milan, 1992: 29.
1993
Lloyd, Christopher. Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. Princeton, 1993: 127 n. 10.
1994
Acidini, Cristina. Benozzo Gozzoli. Florence and New York, 1994: 35, 39, fig. 53.
1995
Andrews, Lew. Story and Space in Renaissance Art: The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative. Cambridge, 1995: 82-86, 155-156 n. 14, repro.
1996
Ahl, Diane Cole. Benozzo Gozzoli. New Haven, 1996: 116, 117, 224-226, 235, 264, 271, 302 n. 42, pl. 140.
1997
Bernacchioni, Annamaria. “Opere di Benozzo per Firenze, conservati fuori sede.” In Anna Padoa Rizzo, ed. Benozzo Gozzoli in Toscana. Florence, 1997: 48-52.
1998
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1998
Faxon, Alicia Craig. "Fatal Woman/Femme Fatale." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 1:320.
1998
Penny, Nicholas. “Pittori e botteghe nell’Italia del Rinascimento.” In Roberto Cassanelli, ed. La bottega dell’artista: tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Milan, 1998: 41.
2000
Ahl, Diane Cole. “‘In corpo di Chompagnia’: Art and Devotion in the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi of Florence.” In Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl, eds. Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, 2000: 46-73.
2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 346-351, color repro.
2003
Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:116, fig. 15, as The Dance of Salome, 214.
2003
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2011
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2016
Bacchi, Andrea, and Andrea De Marchi, eds. La Galleria di Palazzo Cini. Dipinti, sculture, oggetti d'arte. Venice, 2016: 147.
2016
Bacchi, Andrea, and Andrea De Marchi. “Vittorio Cini collezionista di pittura antica. Una splendida avventura, dal Castello di Monselico alla dimora veneziana, da Nino Barbantini a Federico Zeri.” In Andrea Bacchi and Andrea De Marchi, eds. La Galleria di Palazzo Cini. Dipinti, sculture, oggetti d'arte. Venice, 2016: 389, fig. 3.
2018
Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci. Exh. cat. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2018: 220.
2021
Barkan, Leonard. The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance. Princeton, 2021: 109-110, fig. 3.15.
2021
Llewellyn, Laura. "La pala d'altare di Benozzo Gozzoli per la Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi." In Serena Nocentini and Valentina Zucchi, eds. Benozzo Gozzoli e la Cappella dei Magi. Exh. cat. Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, 2021: 73, 82, fig. 4.

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