Co-published with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
When the Philadelphia lawyer John G. Johnson began to collect
art in the late nineteenth century, he defied contemporary taste by
acquiring Italian paintings from the early Renaissance. He
eventually donated his distinguished collection to the City of
Philadelphia, and it is now housed at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art.
Although there have been several catalogues of these paintings,
including one by Bernhard Berenson in 1913, Carl Brandon Strehlke,
Adjunct Curator of the Johnson Collection, has prepared the first
complete scholarly examination. His discussion of such art
historical questions as dating and attribution combines extensive
archival research with information he gained through his technical
study of the paintings with Mark S. Tucker, the Museum's Vice
Chairman of Conservation and Senior Conservator of Paintings.
Strehlke's introduction sheds new light on Johnson's collecting
and traces the history of the acquisition, conservation, and
installation of the Philadelphia paintings. Subsequent chapters
situate detailed discussions of the pictures within the context of
richly detailed biographies. All the paintings are furnished with a
full description; technical report; provenance; art historical
commentary; discussion of related works; comparative illustrations;
and bibliography.
This extensively illustrated book also provides an appendix of
punch marks and a bibliography of some 2,500 entries.
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