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Lost artworks due to fire

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Lost artworks due to fire related damage are original pieces of art that credible sources indicate once existed but that cannot be accounted for in museums or private collections due to deliberate or accidental destruction.

Chronology of notable loss events[edit]

List of notable lost artworks[edit]

Pre-16th century[edit]

Creation date(s)[a] Known as Creator Commission/provenance note Year lost[a] Loss event Surviving copies and documentation
-00435 BCE Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias — 425-472 Lauseion fire[b] No
1277–1285 The facade mosaics and the fresco cycles, with stories from the New and Old Testament Cavallini, Pietro In the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome[3] 1823 Unknown No
1338–1370 Paradise Guariento — 1577 Doge's Palace fire No
1405–1427 Various works Gentile da Fabriano — 1577 Doge's Palace fire No
1415–1455 Various works Pisanello — 1577 Doge's Palace fire No
1425–1469 Confirmation of the Rules of the Carmelites fresco Lippi, Filippo In the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence 1771 Unknown[4] A fragment uncovered in 1860 survives in place
1457–1460 Lamentation of the People over the Dead Gattamelata Andrea Mantegna A fresco in the Palazzo Gattamelata, Padua 1760 Unknown A related drawing is in The Wallace Collection, London
1470–1492 Several original paintings on "pagan" subjects Botticelli — 1497 Bonfire of the Vanities —
1470–1515 Saint Catherine of Siena Altarpiece (Sacra Conversazione) Giovanni Bellini In the Chapel of the Rosary of the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice 1867 Unknown No
1476–1500 Otho Promising to Mediate Between Venice and Barbarossa Alvise Vivarini — 1577 Doge's Palace fire No
1487–1490 Frescoes on mythological themes, including the Forge of Vulcan Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi and Perugino For Lorenzo de' Medici in the great hall and external loggia of his villa at Spedaletto, near Volterra c.1825 Unknown[c] No
1494 The Supper at Emmaus Giovanni Bellini Painted for Giorgio Cornaro of Venice c.1750 Fire in Vienna in the 18th century No

16th century[edit]

Creation date(s)[a] Known as Creator Commission/provenance note Year lost[a] Loss event Surviving copies and documentation
1501–1507 Battle of Salvore Gentile Bellini — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
1501–1507 Presentation of the White Candle to the Pope Gentile Bellini — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
1527 Sir Thomas More and Family Holbein — 1752 Kremsier Castle fire[6]
1529 Portrait of an Architect (Self-Portrait?) Wolf Huber — 1947 Musée de Beaux Arts fire (August 13, 1947)
1536–1537 Whitehall Mural Hans Holbein the Younger — 1698 Unknown Preparation doodles, and a half-length portrait survive.
Battle of Spoleto Titian — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Battle of Cadore Titian — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Doge Gritti Praying to the Virgin Titian — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Coronation of Frederick Barbarossa Tintoretto — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Excommunication of Barbarossa Tintoretto — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Last Judgment Tintoretto — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Homage of Frederick Barbarossa Paolo Veronese — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Pope Alexander III in the Church of St. Marks Carpaccio — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Meeting of the Pope and the Doge at Ancona Carpaccio — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
Presentation of the Eight Standards and Trumpets to the Doge Giovanni Bellini — 1577 Doge's Palace fire
A marble Cupid Michelangelo Later owned by Isabella d'Este and Charles I of England 1698 Fire at Whitehall Palace, London
Ascension of Mary altarpiece (The 'Heller altar') Dürer The central panel added to the collection of Elector Maximilian of Bavaria 1729 Unknown A 1615 copy of the entire altarpiece by Jobst Harrich of Nuremberg survives
Double Portrait of Emperor Charles V and his wife Isabella of Portugal Titian — 1734 Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire A copy by Rubens survives
Ixion and Tantalus Titian — 1734 Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire
Paintings of The Twelve Caesars Titian — 1734 Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire
Death of St Peter Martyr for the Chapel of the Rosary, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Titian — 1867 Unknown Copies and engravings survive
Penitent Magdalene Titian Painted for Philip II of Spain 1873 London bath house fire

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d This may be an estimate
  2. ^ Possible event
  3. ^ Damaged by damp and finally destroyed by fire in the early 19th century[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stockdale, James (1872). Annales Caermoelenses or Annals of Cartmel. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 425–429. Retrieved 6 June 2014. Annales Caermoelensis.
  2. ^ "Replacement of Art in Rio is Uncertain". Reading Eagle. AP. 14 Dec 1978. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  3. ^ Louis Viardot, An Illustrated History of Painters of All Schools (1877), p. 42. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. ^ Louis Viardot,An Illustrated History of Painters of All Schools (1877), p.52. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  5. ^ Julia Mary Cartwright Ady,The Life and Art of Sandro Botticelli (London, Duckworth, 1904), pp. 117-20. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. ^ John Guy, A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and his Dearest Meg (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009), p.172. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
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