Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Alternate Title:
Maesta
Image View:
Detail, of the Madonna with child reaching for her breast
Creator:
Neri di Bicci (Italian painter, 1418-1492)
Location:
repository: Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via XXVII Aprile 1
GPS:
43.778668 11.256569
Date:
ca. 1447-1460 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera and gilding on wood panel
Technique:
gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Description:
Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339. In June 1445 Pope Eugenius IV granted permission to the nuns to extend their buildings, and this began a series of commissions. In 1447 the abbess hired Andrea del Castagno to decorate the west wall of the convent’s refectory (Cenacolo) with frescoes of the Last Supper, the Resurrection, the Crucifixion and the Entombment. Today the Cenacolo is a museum which also houses some detached frescos and works by other artists. The panel shows, from left, Saints Louis of Toulouse, Benedict, Apollonia of Alexandria and Catherine of Alexandria. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-M-SA-MCS-A07
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints