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Giambattista Pittoni: Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew  wikidata:Q64562718 reasonator:Q64562718
Artist
Giambattista Pittoni  (1687–1767)  wikidata:Q982011 q:it:Giovanni Battista Pittoni
 
Giambattista Pittoni
Alternative names
Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Younger, Giambattista Pittoni
Description Italian painter, professor, drawer and art advisor
late Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
or Rococo
era QS:P2348,Q122960
Date of birth/death 6 June 1687 Edit this at Wikidata 6 November 1767 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Venice
Work location
Venice; Republic of Venice Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q982011
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
English: Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
In the left foreground is a woman half-reclining who shields her eyes with her left arm. To the right stands a dog. Above and behind the woman kneels a helmeted soldier. The twisted body of a bearded man (Saint Bartholomew) at center lies on an elevated platform. His raised arms are tied with ropes to wood posts. A man trips the skin from Bartholomew's left underarm with a knife. Others figures stand behind and around Bartholomew. In the upper register at right is a seated man. Behind him, a curtain is drawn back by a cord to reveal a large stone column. A statue of a female holding a spear and bow is at the upper left. A pair of angels with arms linked hovers in the blue sky over the scene.
Depicted people Bartholomew the Apostle
Depicted place Albanopolis
Date 1735
date QS:P571,+1735-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 69.5 cm (27.3 in); width: 35.8 cm (14.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,69.52U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,35.88U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1976985
Current location
European Painting and Sculpture
Accession number
47-29
Place of creation Venice
Object history
English: Possibly purchased from the artist by Field Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore, San Trovaso, Venice and Verona, July 9, 1737 [1];

Possibly by descent to the Schulenburg heirs, Berlin, by 1750;

With Italico Brass (1870-1943), Venice, by 1927-at the latest 1941;

By descent to his son, Alessandro Brass, Venice, by 1941-1947;

Purchased from Brass by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

NOTES:

[1] Schulenburg commissioned several paintings from Pittoni, who also acted as an agent and restorer for Schulenburg’s collection. According to a 1738 inventory, Schulenburg bought a painting titled Martirio de San Bartolomeo copiosissimo di Figure from Pittoni on July 9, 1737. The dimensions given in the inventory do not match those of NAMA’s painting, but the sizes in the Schulenburg archive are not always accurate. The last mention of the Schulenburg Martirio de San Bartolomeo is in a 1750 catalogue of the collection.
Exhibition history
  • Il settecento Italiano, Palazzo della Biennale, Venice, July 18-October 10, 1929, no. 4a.
  • Mostra di pittura veneziana del settecento, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome, December 1941, no. 23.
  • The Century of Mozart, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, January 15-March 4, 1956, no. 88.
  • Ways to Look, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, August 19-September 26, 1960, no cat.
  • Mid-America Collects, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK, October 23-November 27, 1977, no. 46.
Credit line Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Notes
English: Pittoni is the most Rococo of 18th-century Venetian painters as can be seen in the light, fragmented rhythms of this picture of Saint Bartholomew's martyrdom. By order of King Astrages of Armenia, Bartholomew was flayed, or skinned alive, for refusing to worship pagan idols, one of which is on the plinth to the left. This is a study for an altarpiece formerly in the Basilica of Saint Bartholomew in Padua, and is a finished modello, intended to be shown to the patron for approval.
References https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3516/martyrdom-of-saint-bartholomew
Source/Photographer https://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/52873159164/

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