Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Bosco ai Frati Altarpiece
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Bosco ai Frati Altarpiece
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Alternate Title:
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Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and SS Anthony of Padua, Louis of Toulouse, Francis, Cosmas, Damian and Peter Martyr
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Image View:
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Detail, predella panel with Christ (Man of Sorrows) flanked by Saints Dominic, Bernardino of Siena, Peter, Paul, Jerome, and Benedict
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Creator:
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Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
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Location:
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repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 nn. 8503, 8507
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Location Note:
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Convent of San Marco, Pilgrim Room
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GPS:
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+43.778198+11.259329
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Date:
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ca. 1450 (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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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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tempera and gold leaf on wood panel
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Technique:
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gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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174 cm (height) x 173 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Franciscans; Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464
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Description:
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By early 1450 Fra Angelico had returned to Tuscany from Rome to assume the priorate of S Domenico, Fiesole, for the standard period of two years. The altarpiece depicting the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and SS Anthony of Padua, Louis of Toulouse, Francis, Cosmas, Damian and Peter Martyr, commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici for the Observant Franciscans of S Bonaventura, Bosco ai Frati, near Florence (in Mugello), probably dates from this period. Its sumptuous surfaces, grander rhythms and more substantial figures reflect Fra Angelico’s recent Roman experiences. (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-FA-CSM-BFA-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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