Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Virgin Consigning the Brown Scapular to St. Simon Stock
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Virgin Consigning the Brown Scapular to St. Simon Stock
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Alternate Title:
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Brancacci Chapel: Ceiling
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Image View:
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Detail, a group of foreshortened angels
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Creator:
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Vincenzo Meucci (Italian painter, 1694-1766)
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Location:
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repository: Santa Maria del Carmine (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Carmine
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GPS:
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+43.767722+11.243575
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Date:
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1746-1748 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Work Type 2:
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ceiling
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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allegory; saints; Carmelites
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Description:
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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.museumsinflorence.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A2-I-F-SMC-BC-ZC-A06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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