Italy, Cathedral of Cortona, main choir chapel
c. 1515
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and sanguine
299.7 x 167.6 (118 x 66)
Replacements in upper sections; some mending leads
Provenance: Corazzi family, Cortona; unidentified owner, Rome; Richard and Eleanor Mortimer, Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
Bibliography: Eugene Muntz, “Guillaume de Marcillat et la peinture sur verre en Italie,” Revue des arts décoratifs (1890-1891), 362; G. Mancini, Guillaume de M arcillat (Florence, 1909), Appendix 1:76; W. Valentiner, “Ein Glasfenster Guglielmo de Marcillat in Amerikanischer Besitz,” Der Cicerone 14 (1922), 240; C. Sherrill, “Discovery of the Companion to the Window of William of Marsailles in the Victoria and Albert Museum,” Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters 3/1 (1926), 10; P. Rathbone, “A Stained Glass Window of the Nativity by Guglielmo de Marcillat,î Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 17 (December 1937), 14-15; Mortmar, Tuxedo Park, New York, Property of the late Elenore J. Mortimer [sale cat., American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 25 September] (New York, 1937), 36, no. 178, ill.; Susan Atherly, “Marcillat’s Cortona Nativity,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 58/2 (1980), 72-82; Alison Luchs, “Stained Glass above Renaissance Altars: Figural Windows in Italian Church Architecture from Brunelleschi to Bramante,î Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 48/1 (1985), 210; Barnet (1986), 41; Tutag and Hamilton (1987), 15, 17.
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Object/Accession: 37.138, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership and Donations Fund
Inscription: QVE GENVIT ADORAVIT
Attributed to Guillaume de Marcillat (d. 1529)