Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Ecstasy of St. Cecilia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene
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Alternate Title:
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Estasi di Santa Cecilia fra i Santi Paolo, Giovanni Evangelista, Agostino e Maria Maddalena
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Image View:
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Detail, host of angels with choir books (divine music)
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
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Location:
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repository: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 577
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Location Note:
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Via Belle Arti 56
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GPS:
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+44.497778+11.353333
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Date:
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ca. 1513-1518 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance; Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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altarpiece
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on panel transferred to canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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236 cm (height) x 149 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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allegory; saints; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Musical instruments; Paul, the Apostle, Saint
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Description:
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The St. Cecilia altarpiece was painted in Rome but made for S Giovanni in Monte, Bologna, at the behest of Canon Antonio Pucci, nephew of the powerful Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci. Here Raphael insinuated novel ideas of beauty and grandeur into an image in which the realism, the depiction of light on different textures, and the meticulous detail of the still-life of instruments (apparently largely painted by Giovanni da Udine) is dazzling. St. Cecilia is posed as an allegory of music, with themes of divine love and contempt of worldly possessions, symbolized by the earthly and secular musical instruments abandoned on the ground. (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-RS-PNB-SCE-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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