Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Meeting of Christ and Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Meeting of Christ and Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
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Image View:
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Detail, left side, Elizabeth and Zechariah point to Jesus and John
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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. (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-SARTO-CS-S5-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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