The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1632 - 1705
about 1696
Oil on canvas
Overall: 60 1/2 × 79 1/8 in. (153.7 × 200.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Julia and Richard H. Rush, Class of 1937, Tuck 1938
P.971.32
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Not on view
Exhibition History
Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7, 1982.
European Paintings from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 6, 1974.
Images of Martyrs in Renaissance and Baroque Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Walker Art Building, Brunswick, Maine, September 25-December 7, 1997.
In Pursuit of Attribution: A New Look at the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 17-October 23, 1977.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1, 1988-November 9, 1992.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 18, 1994-May 18, 1997.
Permanent Exhibition of European Paintings from the College Collection, European Room, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1975.
Recent Acquisitions, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-July 1972.
The Richard H. Rush Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York, February 25-April 25, 1971.
Publication History
Jacquelynn Baas, From "a few curious Elephants Bones" to Picasso, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, September, 1985, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 1985, pp. 37-43, ill. p. 41
"Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College," New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 90, no. 70.
The Richard H. Rush Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1971, no. 30.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.56, ill., fig. 1.
Provenance
Julia and Richard H. Rush (1915-2011); given to present collection, 1971.
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