Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna of Mercy with Saints
Alternate Title:
Madonna della Misericordia
Image View:
Detail, right side, saint with landscape in background
Creator:
Ortolano (Italian painter, active ca. 1500-ca. 1527)
Location:
repository: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:
Campo dei Frari
GPS:
45.436667 12.326111
Date:
ca. 1508 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
The name by which he is known is derived from his father’s occupation as a gardener (It. ortolano); Ortolano began his career in Ferrara around 1500. Probably as a result of a journey to Venice with Garofalo (1508), he introduced warmer colors and a greater emphasis on naturalism into his painting. The Madonna della Misericordia (Madonna of Mercy) showing a group of people sheltering for protection under the outspread cloak, or pallium of the Virgin Mary, was especially popular in Italy from the 13th to 16th centuries. This panel is in the sacristy of the church. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-FERRAR-SMF-VM-A0 5
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna of Mercy with Saints