Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Death of the Virgin
Alternate Title:
Morte della Madonna
Image View:
Detail, heavenly host of angels and Christ with Mary's soul ascending
Creator:
Michele di Luca dei Coltellini (Italian painter, ca. 1480-after 1543)
Location:
repository: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 263
Location Note:
Via Belle Arti 56
GPS:
44.497778 11.353333
Date:
1502 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
96 cm (height) x 69 cm (width)
Subjects:
saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498
Description:
Coltellini was almost certainly trained within the circle of Ercole de’ Roberti. His early work, including the signed and dated Death of the Virgin (1502; Bologna, Pin. N.) is characterized by a harsh, archaizing style that reveals the influence of northern art. The Death of the Virgin was inspired by Martin Schongauer’s engraving of the same subject (ca. 1480; b. 33) and appears to express the sense of religious contrition felt by Coltellini, who was one of the lesser exponents of the religious fervour that characterized the final years of the dukedom of Ercole I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, partly as a result of the influence of Girolamo Savonarola. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-COLTE-PNB-DM-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Death of the Virgin