Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Preaching of the 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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Preaching of the Baptist
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Image View:
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Detail, left side, figure of Jesus Christ shown kneeling in the distant landscape
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Creator:
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Andrea del Sarto (Italian painter, 1486-1530)
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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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1515 (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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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))
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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-S7-A10
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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