Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Glory of Florentine Saints

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Glory of Florentine Saints
Alternate Title: 
Gloria dei santi fiorentini
Image View: 
Detail, light coming into the covered oculus by means of a row of windows
Creator: 
Vincenzo Meucci (Italian painter, 1694-1766)
Location: 
site: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza S. Lorenzo, 9
GPS: 
+43.774917+11.253861
Date: 
1742 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Baroque; Eighteenth century
Work Type 1: 
fresco (painting)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
pigment on plaster
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects: 
saints; Medici family; Late Baroque
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
6A1-MEUC-SL-GFS-A10
Rights: 
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