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Stefano di Giovanni: The burning of a heretic  wikidata:Q20407132 reasonator:Q20407132
Artist
Stefano di Giovanni  (1392–1450)  wikidata:Q362016 q:it:Sassetta
 
Stefano di Giovanni
Alternative names
Birth name: Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo da Cortona
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death circa 1392
date QS:P,+1392-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
1 April 1450 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cortona Edit this at Wikidata Siena Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Siena, Florenz, Borgo Sansepolcro
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q362016
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Title
The burning of a heretic

Alternative title(s):
The burning of Jan Hus (The Miracle of the Sacrament)
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1423 and 1426
date QS:P571,+1423-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1423-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1426-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium tempera and gold on walnut wood
Dimensions height: 24.6 cm (9.6 in); width: 38.7 cm (15.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,24.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,38.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1464509
Current location
14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts Level 1, NGV International
Accession number
E2-1976
Place of creation Siena
Object history

1423-1426: Commissioned by the Arte della Lana (Wool Merchants’ Guild), for the altarpiece of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Siena, for the feast of Corpus Christi, and completed by 1426

1517: removed to the chapel adjoining the Church of San Pellegrino, Siena
1816 the altarpiece was dismantled in 1816 and subsequently dispersed as a result of the earthquake that destroyed both the Chapel and the larger San Pellegrino Church in 1798
before 1970:private collection
1970: with Pinakos Inc (dealer; proprietor Rudolf Heinemann), New York City
1970 purchased by Thomas Agnew & Sons
1976 with Thomas Agnew & Sons (dealer), London, 1970–76, stock no. J6974; label no. 39330
1976 on the advice of Dr Ursula Hoff and Sir John Pope-Hennessy, purchased for the NGV, with the assistance of the Government of Victoria
References National Gallery of Victoria Collection Online, entry 4340.

NGV: Gordon Moran: The original provenance of the predella panel by Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta) in the National Gallery of Victoria: A Hypothesis
Web Gallery of Art: Arte della Lana Altarpiece (Altar of the Eucharist)
Museen senesi: Polittico dell'Arte della Lana
Source/Photographer http://www.aiwaz.net/gallery/sassetta/gc345
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