Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Crucifixion Adored by Nuns
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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 Adored by Nuns
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Alternate Title:
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Crucified Christ Adored by Benedictine Nuns
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Image View:
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Detail, Christ on Cross; angel gathers his blood in a chalice
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Creator:
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Paolo Schiavo (Italian painter, 1397-1478)
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Location:
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repository: Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. San Marco e Cenacoli no. 179
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Location Note:
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Via XXVII Aprile 1
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GPS:
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+43.778668+11.256569
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Date:
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1447-1449 (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 (detached and resupported fresco)
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Description:
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Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339. In 1447 the abbess hired Andrea del Castagno to decorate the west wall of the convent’s refectory (Cenacolo). The nuns also commissioned this painting. Schiavo was a follower of Masolino; this is confirmed by those works securely attributable to him, though they date from a later phase of his activity. They include this signed and dated fresco. In this devotional image the nuns, all acting as Mary, contemplate compassionately Christ's suffering. (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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7A3-M-SA-CWA-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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