Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Crucifixion with Saints
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Crucifixion with Saints
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Image View:
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Detail, group of saints; Francis (kneeling), Benedict, Bernard of Clairvaux
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Creator:
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Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
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Location:
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repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Convent of San Marco; Piazza San Marco, 1
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GPS:
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+43.778664+11.259584
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Date:
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1441-1442 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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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)
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Measurements:
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550 cm (height) x 950 cm (width)
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Description:
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In accordance with custom, frescoes embellished the public spaces of San Marco. The entire north wall of the Chapter room was reserved for a huge, semicircular Crucifixion with Saints. The numerous saints include the patron saints of the Medici family (Cosimo di Medici was the patron who paid for the fresco program), the convent, the city, the Dominican Order, the Fathers of the Church and the founders of the main monastic orders. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-FA-CSM-CS-C10
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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