Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Tomb of Michelangelo
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Image View:
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Detail, head, figure of Sculpture, by Valerio Cioli
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Creator:
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Battista Lorenzi (Italian sculptor, ca. 1527-1594); Giorgio Vasari (Italian architect, 1511-1574); Giovanni Bandini (Italian sculptor, ca. 1540-1599); Giovanni Battista Naldini (Italian painter, ca. 1537-ca. 1591)
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Location:
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repository: Santa Croce (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Right aisle, between first and second bay from the entrance
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GPS:
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+43.768417+11.262722
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Date:
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completed 1578 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
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Work Type 1:
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monument
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Work Type 2:
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tomb
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Work Type 3:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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white and purple marble; fresco
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling); fresco painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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allegory; death or burial; portraits; Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Restoration and conservation
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Description:
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Vasari, commissioned by Duke Cosimo I de Medici, worked as the designer with several collaborators. In 1564, the year of his election to the Florentine Accademia del Disegno, Battista (di Domenico) Lorenzi provided a figure of Painting for Michelangelo's funeral catafalque and later, for Michelangelo's tomb in Santa Croce, the portrait of Michelangelo and the figure of Sculpture (later transformed into Painting). The final figure of Sculpture was done by Valerio Cioli. The figure of Architecture was sculpted by Giovanni Bandini. The frescoes were painted by Giovanni Battista Naldini, a student of Pontormo. The monument was restored in 2017. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Image Description:
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The serpentine figure, small head and elaborate coiffure are Mannerist characteristics in this work.
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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1A1-VC-MT-E18
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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