Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Saint Mary of Egypt
Image View:
Detail of fantastical landscape representing the wilderness
Creator:
unknown (Italian painter)
Location:
repository: Museo Civico di Castelvecchio (Verona, Veneto, Italy) 15
Location Note:
Corso Castelvecchio 2
GPS:
45.44 10.987778
Date:
15th century (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
landscape; saints; wilderness; fantastical landscape
Description:
Unknown painter from Ferrara, possibly Angelo del Maccagnino, who was a frequent collaborator with Cosimo Tura. St. Mary of Egypt is revered as the patron saint of penitents, and after receiving Communion, retired to the desert to live the rest of her life as a hermit in penitence. (Source: Museo di Castelvecchio [website]; museodicastelvecchio .comune.verona.it/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-I-V-CM-SME-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Saint Mary of Egypt