Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Ecstasy of St. Cecilia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene
Alternate Title:
Estasi di Santa Cecilia fra i Santi Paolo, Giovanni Evangelista, Agostino e Maria Maddalena
Image View:
Detail, corner of carved and gilded frame
Creator:
Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
Location:
repository: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 577
Location Note:
Via Belle Arti 56
GPS:
44.497778 11.353333
Date:
ca. 1513-1518 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
altarpiece
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on panel transferred to canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
236 cm (height) x 149 cm (width)
Subjects:
allegory; saints; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Musical instruments; Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Description:
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.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-RS-PNB-SCE-A08
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Ecstasy of St. Cecilia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene