Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Preaching of the Baptist
Image View:
Detail, right side, gathered people listening to the Baptist
Creator:
Andrea del Sarto (Italian painter, 1486-1530)
Location:
repository: Chiostro dello Scalzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Camillo Benso Cavour, 69
GPS:
43.779619 11.259464
Date:
1515 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique); grisaille
Measurements:
194 cm (height, approx., each panel) x 201 cm (width, approx., each panel)
Relation Work:
partOf Cloister of the Scalzo Fresco Cycle
Description:
Although this is the seventh chronological scene in the life of the Baptist, it was the fourth work (one panel and two of the Virtues were done first) which Del Sarto completed. The colors of the earlier panels are more sepia-toned than later panels and the rendering of the figures becomes progressively more sculptural as the series was executed. The people gathered to hear the Baptist preach are depicted wearing contemporary 16th century Italian clothing. (Source: McKillop, Susan Regan; Franciabigio, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974 (0520016882, 9780520016880))
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-SARTO-CS-S7-A07
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Preaching of the Baptist