Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Blessing of the Young Baptist
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Blessing of the Young Baptist
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Alternate Title:
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Blessing of the Baptist by Saint Zechariah
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Image View:
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Detail, left side, onlookers leaning on a balustrade (all in 16th century Italian style)
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Creator:
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Franciabigio (Italian painter, 1484-1525)
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Location:
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repository: Chiostro dello Scalzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via Camillo Benso Cavour, 69
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GPS:
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+43.779619+11.259464
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Date:
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1518-1519 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique); grisaille
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Measurements:
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194 cm (height, approx., each panel) x 201 cm (width, approx., each panel)
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Relation Work:
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partOf Cloister of the Scalzo Fresco Cycle
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Description:
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Franciabigio's frescoes are the fourth and fifth narrative units in the life of the Baptist, occupying the left two spaces on the east wall, although they were not painted in chronological order. Andrea Del Sarto, commissioned with the series, left for France in 1518-1519, at which time Franciabigio was called in to continue the work. He executed the four atticae and entablature on the whole of the east wall and the first two narrative scenes on that wall, including this one. He may, however, have followed preexisting designs from Del Sarto for these. This scene shows the boy Baptist being blessed by his father, Zechariah, who was given the gift of prophecy, and foretold the future ministry of John. (Source: McKillop, Susan Regan; Franciabigio, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974 (0520016882, 9780520016880))
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-FBIGI-CS-S4-A10
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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