Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna in Glory with Saints and Archangel Michael
Alternate Title:
Madonna col Bambino in gloria e i Santi Giovanni Evangelista, Apollonia, Caterina d'Alessandria e Michele Arcangelo
Image View:
Detail, St. Catherine of Alexandria
Creator:
Perugino (Italian painter, ca. 1450-1523)
Location:
repository: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 579
Location Note:
Via Belle Arti 56
GPS:
44.497778 11.353333
Date:
ca. 1497-1500 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
273 cm (height) x 211 cm (width)
Subjects:
saints; Angels; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Michael (Archangel); seraphim
Description:
A work that shows the "sweetness in united colors" that Vasari praised in Francia and Perugino. Created after 1497, for the Scarani (or Vizzani) chapel in San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna. Mary sits in a mandorla of seraphims with angels on either side. Below stand (from left) the Archangel Michael, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Apollonia, and St. John Evangelist. (Source: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna; http://www.pinacotec abologna.benicultura li.it/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-PERUG-PNB-MG-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna in Glory with Saints and Archangel Michael