Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Madonna and Child with Saints Dominic, Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus and Peter Martyr
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Madonna and Child with Saints Dominic, Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus and Peter Martyr
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Alternate Title:
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Madonna with Child and Saints
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Image View:
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Detail, left side, St. Dominic and Thomas Aquinas (with book) flank the Madonna and Child
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Creator:
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Luca della Robbia (Italian ceramicist, ca. 1399-1482)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Nazionale delle Marche (Urbino, Marches, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Ducale di Urbino Piazza Rinascimento 13
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GPS:
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+43.723333+12.637778
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Date:
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ca. 1450-1470 (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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relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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terracotta; tin (vitreous) glazes
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Technique:
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fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming)
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Measurements:
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111 cm (height) x 230 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280; Dominicans; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274; lunette
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Description:
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Luca is celebrated as the inventor of tin-glazed terracotta, of which the first documented sculpture dates from 1441. In this technique the terracotta is covered with vitreous glazes (blue and white or polychrome). The intense colors and the luminosity of the glazes enhance the expressive effects of the sculptural forms as well as the symbolic meaning of the images, and the glazes also protect the surface. The larger works were done in sections. This lunette features all the major Domincan saints. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-DRO-GNM-MC-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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