Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Pala del Sacramento [tabernacle in the south aisle]
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Image View:
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Detail, one of two flanking young girls, holding candlesticks
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Creator:
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Desiderio da Settignano (Italian sculptor, ca. 1429-1464)
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Location:
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repository: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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New Sacristy
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GPS:
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+43.774917+11.253861
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Date:
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ca. 1460 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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tabernacle (liturgical container)
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Work Type 2:
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relief (sculpture)
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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 marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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447 cm (height) x 140 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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architecture; New Testament; saints; Angels; Catholic Church; Jesus Christ; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Mass; Communion
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Description:
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Desiderio's tabernacle combines an illusionistic perspective relief, forming a frame for the cupboard at center, holding consecrated bread, with sculpture in the round. There are two flanking young girls holding candlesticks, and on a lunette top, two putti adore the Christ Child, who stands on a Communion chalice and holds a rose with thorns. At the base are two flanking vertical decorative panels and a central panel of the Lamentation with Mary, Christ and St. John Evangelist. (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-DESIDER-SL-TSS-A10
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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