Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna and Child with Eight Saints and Four Musical Angels
Alternate Title:
Virgin and Child with Eight Saints and Four Kneeling Angels
Image View:
Detail of the four kneeling musical angels
Creator:
Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni (Italian painter, active 1369-1415)
Location:
repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 6119
Location Note:
58-60 via Ricasoli
GPS:
43.77694 11.25873
Date:
ca. 1375-1380 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Gothic (Medieval)
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera on panel with gilding
Technique:
gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
82 cm (height) x 42 cm (width)
Description:
Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni's life is a mystery. In 1369 he was registered in Florence's Arte dei Medici e Speziali, and his only signed work is a fresco of 1410 from a church in Volterra, Italy. By examining dated artworks with similar characteristics, however, scholars have pieced together his probable career. Cenni's use of golden backgrounds with tooling, flattened space, and elongated figures with elegant features exemplifies the International Gothic style in Florence. Cenni's gothicizing concept of form and lively colors may have been influenced by his experience as a manuscript illuminator. Panel from the Church of San Donato in Polverosa, Florence. (Source: J. Paul Getty Museum Collection [website]; http://www.getty.edu /art/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-M-AG-MCS-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna and Child with Eight Saints and Four Musical Angels