Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Scenes from the Life of Saint Columba
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Scenes from the Life of Saint Columba
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Alternate Title:
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Storie di Santa Colomba
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Image View:
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Panel; St. Columba tames the bear sent to kill her, detail
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Creator:
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Giovanni Baronzio (Italian painter, died ca. 1362)
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Location:
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repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) 2345; 2346; 2347
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Location Note:
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Via Brera 28
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GPS:
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+45.471944+9.188056
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Date:
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ca. 1345-1350 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fourteenth century; Gothic (Medieval)
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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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tempera on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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53 cm (height, each panel) x 55 cm (width, each panel)
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Subjects:
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cycles or series; saints; Riminese
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Description:
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These panels show three scenes from the life of St. Columba. In the first she defends her Christian faith in front of the emperor Aurelian, in the second she tames the bear brought to kill her and the bear, shown as a kind of teddy bear, attacks the man who had brought him. In the end, the only option is to behead her. Baronzio is considered the most famous painter of 14th century Rimini, and the panels, painted around 1345, may have belonged to an altarpiece of the Cathedral of Rimini. (Source: Brera Pinacoteca [website]; http://pinacotecabrera.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BARONZIO-SSC-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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