Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Institution of the Eucharist (cell 35)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Institution of the Eucharist (cell 35)
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Alternate Title:
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Last Supper (cell 35)
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Image View:
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Detail, the remaining Apostles kneel at the right, Judas with a darkened halo
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Creator:
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workshop of 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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186 cm (height) x 234 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Apostles; Dominicans; Jesus Christ; Holy Communion
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Description:
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At this period lay brothers were assumed to be untutored in Latin and would not have undergone even the minimal theological preparation required for ordination. Accordingly, the frescoes in their cells, on the south side of the north corridor, were directed to a community that was less attuned to theological and visual abstraction. The Institute of the Eucharist in Cell 35 underscored the Dominicans devotion to the Eucharist, which St. Thomas articulated most eloquently. It transpires in a spacious room similar to the convent's actual refectory and repeats elements of San Marco's own architecture, the arched windows of the dormitory, the well in the second cloister, to emphasize its relevance to the lay brother. (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-IOE-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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