Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Bartolini Tondo
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Bartolini Tondo
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Alternate Title:
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Madonna col Bambino e Nascita della Madonna
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Image View:
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Overall view with frame (and black background)
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Creator:
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Filippo Lippi (Italian painter, ca. 1406-1469)
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Location:
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repository: Palazzo Pitti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) N. Inv. 343
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Location Note:
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Piazza Pitti, 1; Palatine Gallery
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GPS:
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+43.76526+11.25029
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Date:
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1452-1453 (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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panel painting
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Work Type 2:
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tondo
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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oil paint on panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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135 cm (diameter)
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Description:
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During his 14 years at Prato, Lippi also painted many panels. On 8 August 1452 he promised to complete a tondo for Leonardo di Bartolommeo Bartolini by 8 December, but it was still unfinished by 16 April 1453. This is identifiable with the Virgin and Child with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (Florence, Pitti). It is the first painted image of the Virgin in Florentine art to appear on a tondo, a form hitherto associated with the decorative trays known as deschi da parto. The background composition recalls Ghiberti’s Jacob and Esau panel from the Gates of Paradise. Restored in 1981. (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-LIPPI-BT-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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