Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: David and Bathsheba

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
David and Bathsheba
Image View: 
Overall view; back-lit; King David plays his harp over the sleeping Bathsheba
Creator: 
Marc Chagall (Belorussian artist, 1887-1985)
Location: 
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note: 
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
GPS: 
+45.4987-73.5801
Date: 
ca. 1966 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
stained glass (visual work)
Classification: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material: 
white glass; fired silver stain; vitreous paint
Technique: 
grisaille; painting and painting techniques; stained glass
Subjects: 
music; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Bible; David, King of Israel; Musical instruments; folkloric; dreamlike; harp
Description: 
Here Chagall uses a Medieval technique of painting silver stain, which fires to a brownish-orange color, and applying black vitreous paint, which can be scraped and worked before firing. During his last 30 years Chagall mastered stained glass, for which he adapted ancient techniques of hand-painting on the glass before firing, and with which he depicted both religious and secular subjects. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-CHAGALL-SG-DB-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.