Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Portinari Altarpiece
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Portinari Altarpiece
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Alternate Title:
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Portinari Triptych
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Image View:
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Detail, background landscape with the Three Magi on the road to Bethlehem
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Creator:
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Hugo van der Goes (Netherlandish painter, ca. 1440-1482)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 nn. 3191-3193
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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. 1473-1478 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian; Netherlandish
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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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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oil paint on wood panels
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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253 cm (height, central panel) x 304 cm (width, central panel)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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In the first edition of the Vite (1550) Vasari wrote that the picture at S Maria Nuova in Florence was by ‘Ugo d’Anversa’. This picture is assumed to be the Portinari Altarpiece, a large triptych with the Nativity or Adoration of the Shepherds from the church of S Egidio in the hospital of S Maria Nuova. The patrons of S Maria Nuova were the Portinari family, and it was Tommaso Portinari, agent for the Medici bank in Bruges, who commissioned the altarpiece. Tommaso is shown on the left wing with his sons Antonio and Pigello, presented by SS Thomas and Anthony, and his wife, Maria Baroncelli, on the right wing with their daughter, Margherita, and SS Mary Magdalene and Margaret. (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-VANDERG-UG-ASA-B06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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