Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Annunciation (Altarpiece) with Flanking Angels
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Image View:
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Left angel, by Pietro Bracci I, detail, arm and wing, from the left
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Creator:
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Filippo Della Valle (Italian sculptor, 1697-1768); Pietro Bracci I (Italian sculptor, 1700-1773)
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Location:
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repository: Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via del Caravita, 8A; chapel, left transept
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GPS:
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+41.899+12.479778
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Date:
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1750 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque; Eighteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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altar
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 3:
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relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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white and colored marble; gilded bronze
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Technique:
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carving (processes); gilding (technique)
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Measurements:
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930 cm (height, relief panel)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Angels; Gabriel (Archangel); Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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The chapel in the left transept has a marble altarpiece of the Annunciation by Filippo Della Valle, with allegorical figures and angels by Pietro Bracci, and a frescoed ceiling with The Assumption by Andrea Pozzo. Cametti's monumental Annunciation altarpiece in Turin remained a touchstone of late Baroque reliefs, and when the younger Florentine sculptor Filippo della Valle created the large relief of Annunciation for the altar opposite Le Gros' St Aloyzius Gonzaga in Glory, he paid Cametti the compliment of revising his work in line with mid-eighteenth-century expectations. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-BRACCI-AOA-LA-A08
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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