Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Virgin and Child with Six Angels and the Baptist
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Virgin and Child with Six Angels and the Baptist
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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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workshop of Sandro Botticelli (Italian painter, ca. 1444-1510)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5
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GPS:
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+41.914+12.492
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Date:
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ca. 1485 (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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painting (visual work)
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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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tempera paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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170 cm (diameter)
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Description:
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The picture is rich in floral symbols of the Virgin. The angels hold long-stemmed lilies, the vases are filled with pink and white roses, one angel wears a wreath of roses, another is garlanded with white jasmine, and a third has a sprig of juniper around his wrist. The Child holds a pomegranate, symbolising the Resurrection. This unusually large tondo is recorded in a Borghese inventory of 1693 as a work of Ghirlandaio, an attribution it retained until the nineteenth century. First attributed to Botticelli in 1864 by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. The execution appears to have been left largely or entirely to his workshop. The pose of the little St John, kneeling to the left of the throne, resembles that of the naked youth in Filippino Lippi’s fresco of the Raising of the Son of Theophilus in the Carmine. (Source: Cavallini to Veronese [website]; http://cavallinitoveronese.co.uk/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BSW-BG-VC-A06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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