Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Presentation in the Temple
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Presentation in the Temple
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Image View:
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Detail, saints at the presentation of the infant Jesus, shown in a complex interior space; Saint Anne (Anna) at right with scroll
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Creator:
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Italian painter, 1285-ca. 1348)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 8346
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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1337-1342 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Gothic (Medieval)
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Work Type 1:
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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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tempera paint with gold gilding on wood panel
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Technique:
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gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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257 cm (height) x 168 cm (width)
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Description:
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Ambrogio’s signed panel, the Presentation in the Temple (Florence, Uffizi), once the center of the San Crescenzio Altarpiece in Siena Cathedral, was begun in 1337 but not completed until 1342. A 15th-century cathedral inventory states that the central image was flanked by figures of St Crescentius and St Michael the Archangel (now lost). Basing his image of the temple on the architecture of Siena Cathedral, Ambrogio created an architectural interior view of unprecedented complexity and spatial depth. By including inscriptions in his composition, he departed from the conventional treatment of the subject in order to enhance the theological significance of the event depicted. The image makes the Presentation critical in the history of salvation; in this it is unique. (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-LOREN-UG-PT-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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