Nativity, predella panel by Lorenzo Monaco, (before 1425)
Image_Title
Nativity, predella panel by Lorenzo Monaco, (before 1425)
Image View
Creator:
Lorenzo Monaco (Italian painter, ca. 1370-1425); workshop of Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
Agent_Display
Lorenzo Monaco (Italian painter, ca. 1370-1425); workshop of Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
Creator
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Work_Location_Type_D isplay
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco, Pilgrim Room
Work_LocationNotes
Convent of San Marco, Pilgrim Room
Location Note
GPS:
43.778198 11.259329
GPS
43.778198 11.259329
GPS
Date:
ca. 1430-1440 (creation)
Work_DateDisplay
ca. 1430-1440 (creation)
Date
Cultural Context:
Italian
Work_Culture
Italian
Cultural Context
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work_StylePeriodDisp lay
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Style Period
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work_Worktype1
panel painting
Work Type 1
Classification:
Paintings
Work_Classification
Paintings
Classification
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Work_MaterialDisplay
oil paint on wood panel
Material
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Work_Technique
oil painting (technique)
Technique
Measurements:
275 cm (height, with frame) x 285 cm (width, with frame)
Work_MeasurementDisp lay
275 cm (height, with frame) x 285 cm (width, with frame)
Measurements
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Jesus Christ; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; crucifixion
Work_Image_SubjectDi splay
New Testament; saints; Jesus Christ; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; crucifixion
Subjects
Description:
Palla Strozzi is known to have commissioned Fra Angelico to paint the Deposition, to hang in the sacristy of Santa Trìnita, Florence. The Deposition, which was not an altarpiece, had been left unfinished at Lorenzo Monaco’s death, ca. 1425. The frame dates to that period and the three scenes in the gables and the three predella panels are by Lorenzo. Fra Angelico’s shop executed the 12 standing figures on the pilasters and the Deposition, with its sublime landscape, in the main panel, but there is no consensus among scholars as to when the work was undertaken. In Fra Angelico’s surviving large-scale work nothing resembles the vast landscape, whose vistas extend into distant invisibility. The groups of women to the left of center and men to the right were undoubtedly designed by Fra Angelico, although probably executed by others. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Work_Description_Sou rce
Palla Strozzi is known to have commissioned Fra Angelico to paint the Deposition, to hang in the sacristy of Santa Trìnita, Florence. The Deposition, which was not an altarpiece, had been left unfinished at Lorenzo Monaco’s death, ca. 1425. The frame dates to that period and the three scenes in the gables and the three predella panels are by Lorenzo. Fra Angelico’s shop executed the 12 standing figures on the pilasters and the Deposition, with its sublime landscape, in the main panel, but there is no consensus among scholars as to when the work was undertaken. In Fra Angelico’s surviving large-scale work nothing resembles the vast landscape, whose vistas extend into distant invisibility. The groups of women to the left of center and men to the right were undoubtedly designed by Fra Angelico, although probably executed by others. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
