Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Sigismondo Malatesta Kneeling before Saint Sigismund
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Sigismondo Malatesta Kneeling before Saint Sigismund
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Alternate Title:
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St. Sigismund and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
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Image View:
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Detail, Sigismondo Malatesta kneels in profile accompanied by two greyhounds
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Creator:
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Piero della Francesca (Italian painter, ca. 1415-1492)
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Location:
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repository: Tempio Malatestiano (Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Tempio Malatestiano
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GPS:
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+44.059624+12.570232
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Date:
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1451 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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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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Measurements:
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257 cm (height) x 345 cm (length)
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Subjects:
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portrait; rulers and leaders; saints; dogs; greyhounds
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Description:
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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/index.html)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-PIEROF-SMK-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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