Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Filippo Strozzi Chapel; Stained Glass
Image View:
Upper half, the Virgin and Child; a lamb is in a medallion at top
Creator:
Alessandro Agolanti (Italian glass painter, 1443-1516); Filippino Lippi (Italian artist, ca.1457-1504)
Location:
repository: Santa Maria Novella (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 18; Chapel of Filippo Strozzi
GPS:
43.7746 11.2493
Date:
1492 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
stained glass (visual work)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
colored glass; vitreous enamels; lead
Technique:
painting and painting techniques; stained glass
Relation Work:
partOf Filippo Strozzi Chapel
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Dominicans; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
Above the tomb is the great stained-glass window (designed by Filippino before 1497), depicting the Virgin and Child with SS Philip and John the Evangelist, with fictive mouldings and grotesque decoration lining the window embrasure. The stained-glass window was made in 1492 by the Florentine artist Alessandro Agolanti, known also as Il Bidello. The window was not put in place until 1503. Filippo Strozzi’s will had stipulated that the chapel (commissioned in 1487) was to be completed by 1493, and in 1497 Filippino Lippi’s slow progress led to a court case. He finished the frescoes in 1502. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A2-I-F-SMN-SFC-SG-A 02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Filippo Strozzi Chapel; Stained Glass