Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Glory of Florentine Saints
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Glory of Florentine Saints
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Alternate Title:
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Gloria dei santi fiorentini
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Image View:
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Overall view, looking straight up in the center of the dome; the ring of light in the oculus comes from windows of a capping cupola
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Creator:
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Vincenzo Meucci (Italian painter, 1694-1766)
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Location:
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site: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza S. Lorenzo, 9
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GPS:
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+43.774917+11.253861
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Date:
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1742 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque; Eighteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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saints; Medici family; Late Baroque
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Description:
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Under the patronage of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, the last of the Medici ruling line, various important works were undertaken in San Lorenzo, Florence, between 1738 and 1743. Among them, Vincenzo Meucci frescoed the cupola in 1742 with the Glory of Florentine Saints. Among his pupils are Tommaso Gherardini. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-MEUC-SL-GFS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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