Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Santa Maria Novella; Tornabuoni Chapel
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Santa Maria Novella; Tornabuoni Chapel
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Image View:
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Right wall; Angel Appearing to Zacharias, detail, group including portraits of contemporary Florentine citizens
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Creator:
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Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian painter, 1449-1494)
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Location:
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repository: Santa Maria Novella (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 18
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GPS:
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+43.7746+11.2493
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Date:
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1485-1490 (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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chancel
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Work Type 2:
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fresco (painting)
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Work Type 3:
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stained glass (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster (fresco); stained glass
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique); stained glass
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Measurements:
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450 cm (width, of side walls)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Dominicans; Evangelists (Bible); John, the Baptist, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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The Tornabuoni Chapel is actually the chancel of the church, behind the high altar. Domenico, his brother Davide and their workshop created everything, including the stained glass windows, still in situ and the altarpiece (which has been scattered). Using classical pilasters and entablatures, Ghirlandaio divided the two enormous walls under the wall rib in this Gothic chapel into six horizontally rectangular picture fields, topped with a lunette. To the left is the life of Mary, to the right is the life of St. John Baptist. The vaults contain the four Evangelists. The back wall has Dominican saints and the donors, Giovanni Tornabuoni and his wife Francesca Pitti. The frescoes were restored in 1996. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Image Description:
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Vasari: "Marsilio Ficino in a canon's dress; Cristofano Landino next, in a red mantle and a black ribbon round his throat; Demetrius the Greek in the middle, turning round and lifting his hand slightly; Angelo Poliziano, all full of life and energy."
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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-GHI-SMN-TC-B11
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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