Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints Cosmas, John the Evangelist and Peter Martyr (cell 38)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints Cosmas, John the Evangelist and Peter Martyr (cell 38)
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Alternate Title:
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Crucifixion with Patron Saints of the Medici Family
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Image View:
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Overall view, on left are Saint Cosmas and the Virgin, on the right are John the Evangelist and Saint Peter Martyr
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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)
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Location Note:
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Convent of San Marco, Dormitory; Piazza San Marco 3
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GPS:
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+43.778198+11.259329
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Date:
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ca. 1441-1442 (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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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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152 cm (height) x 112 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Dominicans; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Medici family; Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464; skull; Golgotha
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Description:
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Cell 38 and 39 of the San Marco dormitory were intended for Cosimo de' Medici, who belonged to the community by virtue of his patronage, and are larger and more opulently decorated. These two were decorated, appropriately, with a Crucifixion with Patron Saints of the Medici Family in Cell 38 and the Adoration of the Magi, a subject with strong Medicean associations, in Cell 39. This fresco is painted with a costly ground of lapis lazuli, rather than the bare plaster background found in the other cells. (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-CCJ-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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