Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0783
San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.145a-c
Medium: chalk, charcoal and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/4 x 7 15/16" (298 x 201 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'DIVO IOANNI APOSTOLO ET EVANGELISTAE / PROTECTORI ET SANCTISSIMAE CRUCI …' and 'N 50 - 11 3/4 x 7 3/8' and 'No 50 -'

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae

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San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, Freer Gallery of Art
San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, Freer Gallery of Art
San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, photo, 1995, M. F. MacDonald, WPP, University of Glasgow
San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, photo, 1995, M. F. MacDonald, WPP, University of Glasgow

The Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista is on the Calle della Laca, north of San Rocco and the Frari, at the centre of an area of Venice encircled to west of the Grand Canal. It is one of the five great Scuole, a meeting and prayer house for one of the confraternities into which Venetians banded together, bound by common origins or occupations, for mutual and charitable benefit. The exterior is exquisite, with intricate carving and iron-work, a masterpiece of the Venetian Renaissance. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 69-70, repr. pl. 66, view repr. pl. 67. Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 69-70, repr. pl. 66, view repr. pl. 67.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret