Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Brancacci Chapel

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Brancacci Chapel
Alternate Title: 
Cappella dei Brancacci
Image View: 
Fresco fragments surrounding where there was formerly a lower window (upper window added 1746-1748)
Creator: 
Filippino Lippi (Italian painter, ca.1457-1504); Masaccio (Italian painter, 1401-1428); Masolino (Italian painter, 1383-ca. 1447)
Location: 
repository: Santa Maria del Carmine (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza del Carmine
GPS: 
+43.767722+11.243575
Date: 
ca. 1424-1428 (creation); ca. 1481-1485 (alteration)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
fresco (painting)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
pigment on plaster
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements: 
599 cm (width, lateral walls)
Subjects: 
New Testament; Old Testament and Apocrypha; saints; Peter, the Apostle, Saint
Description: 
The early Renaissance frescoes, carried out by Masolino and Masaccio in the 1420s (and completed by Filippino Lippi ca. 1481-1485), mark a watershed in the history of European art with a new perspectival concept of space. There are 12 separate picture fields on the lateral and back wall (which is divided with a window in the center). Individual fields are separated by Corinthian pilasters and a dentilled molding, a complete novelty at this date. The cycle from the life of Saint Peter was commissioned as patron saint from Pietro Brancacci, the original owner of the chapel. The frescoes were cleaned and restored in 1986-1988. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Image Description: 
A fourth conservation campaign (1982-1988) brought to light two heads in circular frames between bands of acanthus ornament on the embrasures of the window over the altar, the one on the right is attributed to Masaccio.
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
6A2-I-F-SMC-BC-ZG-A19
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.