Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Charity
Alternate Title:
Four Virtues: Charity
Image View:
Detail, right side, baby plays with drapery in illusionary niche
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:
1513 (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.)
Relation Work:
partOf Cloister of the Scalzo Fresco Cycle
Description:
Flanking the doors on the short walls are the four Virtues (Charity, Hope, Justice and Faith). These help divide the space for the twelve narrative scenes, four each on the long walls and two on the short walls, one on either side of the Virtues. Charity is shown as surrounded by three babies. This was painted fairly early in the project; the other 3 allegories were painted in the final three years. They are painted in illusionary niches, almost as trompe l'oeil sculpture. (Source: McKillop, Susan Regan; Franciabigio, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974 (0520016882, 9780520016880))
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-SARTO-CS-CH-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Charity