Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Madonna and Child with male figures in the background and two Prophets in roundels
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Madonna and Child with male figures in the background and two Prophets in roundels
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Alternate Title:
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Madonna con Bambino e figure maschili sullo sfondo, San Giovanni Battista, Profeti
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Image View:
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Overall view with frame
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Creator:
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Luca Signorelli (Italian painter, ca. 1450-1523)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 502
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Location Note:
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Piazzale degli Uffizi
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GPS:
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+43.768639+11.255214
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Date:
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ca. 1489-1490 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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on wood panel
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Technique:
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grisaille; painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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170 cm (height) x 115 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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human figure; New Testament; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1449-1492; flowery mede
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Description:
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The Virgin is portrayed surrounded by a faux frame (part of the grisaille work) that places her in a tondo format within a rectangular painting. She is sitting in a flowery meadow, against a background of young athletes (probaly to be interpreted as allegoric of ascetic virtues); towering above her are the monochrome (grisaille) figures of John the Baptist and two prophets. Vasari tells us that the painting was presented by Luca to Lorenzo the Magnificent and there can be no doubt that the learned symbolism and the allegorical references it contains would have been fully appreciated by the Medici Court. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-SIGN-UG-MCS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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