Saint Thomas Aquinas, c. 1450

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in dark brown, orange, and yellow; with inscription in pen and ink

Dimensions

image: 28.1 x 11.1 cm (11 1/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

sheet: 29.2 x 14.3 cm (11 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.)
overall (exterior frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1700, State m

Accession Number

1964.8.33

Artists / Makers

Italian 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

at upper right, inscribed in black ink: Bene scripsisti de me Thoma (You have written well about me, Thomas); at center, on pages of open book, inscribed in black ink: Invocavi et venit in me spiritus sapientie (I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me); at bottom, inscribed in black ink: Sanctus Thomas doctor et virgo

[translations from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 315.]

Provenance

(Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1960; gift to the NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenthal, Erwin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 246, repro.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 12.

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1973-1974, no. 40.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 101b, repro.

2014: Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2014 - 2015, no. 43b.

Bibliography

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965: Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.