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Cassone with three painted panels

(Italian (Florentine), about 1416–1465)
(Italian (Florentine), about 1402–1489)
Paintings: possibly after 1465; cabinetry: late 19th century
Medium/TechniqueTempera on panel
DimensionsOverall: 99.1 x 208.3 x 73.7 cm (39 x 82 x 29 in.)
Overall (Scenes from the Aeneid (?)): 38.1 x 140 cm (15 x 55 1/8 in.)
Overall (End panels): 38 x 40 cm (14 15/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer
Accession number06.2441
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1872, Martin Brimmer (b. 1829 - d. 1896), Boston [see note]; by inheritance to his widow, Marianne Timmins Brimmer (b. 1827 - d. 1906), Boston; 1906, bequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)

NOTE: Lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; see Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 (1872): pp. 25-26.
Battle of Pharsalus and the Beheading of Pompey
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso
about 1456–65
Journey of the Queen of Sheba
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso
Meeting of the Queen of Sheba and Solomon
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso
about 1464–65
Saint Michael
Pellegrino di Giovanni di Antonio da Perugia
about 1428–37
Saint Vincent Ferrer
Benvenuto di Giovanni
about 1498–1500
Madonna of Humility
Giovanni di Paolo
about 1442
Restricted
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)
about 1467
Male Saint
Benvenuto di Giovanni
about 1498–1500
Expulsion from Paradise
Benvenuto di Giovanni
1470s
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
Lorenzo di Niccolò di Martino
about 1404–10
Saint Bernardino
Sano di Pietro