Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Image View:
Detail, Christian onlookers mourn the event
Creator:
Agnolo Bronzino (Italian painter, 1503-1572)
Location:
site: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza S. Lorenzo, 9
GPS:
43.774917 11.253861
Date:
1565-1569 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
saints; Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574; Saint Lawrence; gridiron; martyrdom
Description:
His last commission from Duke Cosimo I de Medici was the Martyrdom of St Lawrence (1565), an enormous Michelangelesque fresco which occupies a large section of the left nave wall of San Lorenzo, Florence. On the left of the fresco, beneath the statue of Mercury, Bronzino painted a self-portrait together with two portraits of his master, Pontormo, and his pupil, Alessandro Allori. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-BRONZ-SL-MSL-A13
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence