Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library
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Alternate Title:
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Sisto IV nomina Bartolomeo Platina primo Prefetto della Biblioteca Vaticana
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Image View:
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Detail, central portion, librarian Platina kneels and points to inscription below
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Creator:
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Melozzo da Forlì (Italian painter, 1438-1494)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40270
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Location Note:
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Vatican Museums (Pinacoteca); Viale Vaticano
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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1476-1477 (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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fresco transferred to canvas
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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3.75 m (height) x 3.25 m (width)
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Subjects:
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architecture; rulers and leaders; Julius II, Pope, 1443-1513; Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484; libraries
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Description:
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This fresco was originally located on the north wall of the Vatican Library facing the entrance to the Biblioteca Latina. The scene depicts the Pope surrounded by four nephews: Raffaele Riario, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (later Julius II), Giovanni della Rovere and Girolamo Riario. The librarian Platina (the humanist Bartolomeo Sacchi) kneels and points to an inscription praising the Pope’s urban renovations. The figures are arranged (seen from a low viewpoint) in the foreground of a deep architectural setting, with grand proportions and classicizing ornament. This recalls Mantegna's work in the Camera degli Sposi which must have been familiar to Melozzo. (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-FROLI-VM-SBP-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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