Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Arrest of John the Baptist
Alternate Title:
Capture of Saint John the Baptist
Image View:
Overall view of panel
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:
1517 (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:
The ninth scene as presented in chronological order; there was a change made in the program, ca. 1515-1517, since the Baptism of Christ should have followed the Baptism of the People and preceded the Arrest. These two are on the west wall, which Franciabigio was not given permission to work on during Del Sarto's absence in France. Shearman takes this as a sign that Del Sarto intended to return and finish the project. (Source: McKillop, Susan Regan; Franciabigio, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974 (0520016882, 9780520016880))
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-SARTO-CS-S9-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Arrest of John the Baptist