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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Man of Sorrows (cell 39)
Image View:
Overall view of recessed niche and wall tabernacle
Creator:
workshop of Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco, Dormitory; Piazza San Marco 3
GPS:
43.778198 11.259329
Date:
ca. 1441-1442 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Work Type 2:
tabernacle (liturgical container)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
462.6 in (height, whole arched wall from center) x 140.6 in (width, whole arched wall)
Subjects:
New Testament; Dominicans; Jesus Christ; Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464; crucifixion
Description:
At San Marco, Fra Angelico was entrusted with a program of decoration that included an altarpiece for the church and over 50 frescoes for the convent itself, the largest group of related works to survive almost intact from the workshop of a single Renaissance painter. Cell 39 is at the end of the corridor for lay brothers. Cell 38 and 39 were intended for Cosimo de' Medici, who belonged to the community by virtue of his patronage, and are larger and more opulently decorated. This Man of Sorrows is painted in a recessed tabernacle below a large fresco of the Adoration of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli. The design is by Fra Angelico, but was probably painted by assistants. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-GOZZ-CSM-AMM-A14
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Man of Sorrows (cell 39)