Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Saint Ambrose Enthroned with Saints

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Saint Ambrose Enthroned with Saints
Alternate Title: 
Sant’Ambrogio in trono e santi
Image View: 
Detail, Saint Ambrose holding a scourge and a staff
Creator: 
Alvise Vivarini (Italian painter, ca. 1442 -ca. 1505); Marco Basaiti (Italian painter, active ca. 1480- ca. 1530)
Location: 
repository: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note: 
Campo dei Frari
GPS: 
+45.436667+12.326111
Date: 
1503 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1: 
altarpiece
Work Type 2: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on wood panel
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
5 m (height) x 2.5 m (width)
Subjects: 
saints; Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397 ; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; John, the Baptist, Saint; Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270
Description: 
Commissioned by the Milanese scuola for their chapel (Cappella dei Milanesi) in the Frari. The large scale altarpiece was completed by his student Marco Basaiti after Vivarini's death in 1503. The altarpiece presents the triumph of St Ambrose, patron saint of Milan, carrying a scourge in his right hand and a staff in his left. The armored men at his back support the sword and the cross. On his right stand St. John the Baptist, St. Sebastian and St. Louis IX, and on his left St. Gregory the Great, St. Augustine and St. Jerome. Behind the two groups of saints are two anonymous heads that may be the priors of the brotherhood. At the foot of the throne two angels are playing the lute and the mandola. These are by Basaiti, as is St. Sebastian. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
6A1-VIVAR-SMF-SA-A02
Rights: 
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