Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Heaven and Hell
Alternate Title:
Paradiso e Inferno
Image View:
Detail, the dammed in Hell, with a devil devouring souls
Creator:
unknown (Italian)
Location:
repository: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 281
Location Note:
Via Belle Arti 56
GPS:
44.497778 11.353333
Date:
ca. 1435 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
111 cm (height) x 78.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
allegory; New Testament; saints; Angels
Description:
Museum website lists creator as "Maestro dell'Avicenna" and notes that this work has a stylistic and iconographic relationship with the frescoes on the left wall of the Bolognini Chapel in San Petronio, Bologna, painted by Giovanni da Modena between 1410 and 1445. This work was already considered a preparatory sketch (and even attributed to Giotto in older inventories), but is instead contemporary with the works in San Petronio. The "Maestro dell'Avicenna" has also been stylistically linked to some miniatures of the same date. (Source: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna; http://www.pinacotec abologna.benicultura li.it/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-AVIC-NBP-PH-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Heaven and Hell