Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Virgin Consigning the Brown Scapular to St. Simon Stock
Alternate Title:
Brancacci Chapel: Ceiling
Image View:
Overall view of ceiling with the window added in 1746-1748
Creator:
Vincenzo Meucci (Italian painter, 1694-1766)
Location:
repository: Santa Maria del Carmine (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza del Carmine
GPS:
43.767722 11.243575
Date:
1746-1748 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Work Type 2:
ceiling
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
allegory; saints; Carmelites
Description:
Between 1746 and 1748 the Brancacci Chapel was extensively redecorated; a new ceiling vault and window were constructed. Vincenzo Meucci then frescoed the ceiling with the Virgin Consigning the Brown Scapular to St. Simon Stock, thus destroying Masolino’s Evangelists. At the same time the lunettes of the Shipwreck of the Apostles and the Calling of the Apostles were painted over. St. Simon Stock was an early (died 1265) prior general of the Carmelite order; the Virgin in this association is Our Lady of Mount Carmel. (Source: Museums in Florence [website]; http://www.museumsin florence.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
6A2-I-F-SMC-BC-ZC-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Virgin Consigning the Brown Scapular to St. Simon Stock