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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Sigismondo Malatesta Kneeling before Saint Sigismund
Alternate Title:
St. Sigismund and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
Image View:
Detail, Sigismondo Malatesta kneels in profile accompanied by two greyhounds
Creator:
Piero della Francesca (Italian painter, ca. 1415-1492)
Location:
repository: Tempio Malatestiano (Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Location Note:
Tempio Malatestiano
GPS:
44.059624 12.570232
Date:
1451 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
257 cm (height) x 345 cm (length)
Subjects:
portrait; rulers and leaders; saints; dogs; greyhounds
Description:
The Tempio Malatestiano is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially named for St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450. The young prince, a renowned condottiero, is kneeling in profile before St. Sigismund, patron of soldiers. The fresco has been badly damaged. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/in dex.html)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-PIEROF-SMK-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Sigismondo Malatesta Kneeling before Saint Sigismund