Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Madonna del Latte
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Madonna del Latte
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Alternate Title:
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Tomb of Francesco Nori
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Image View:
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Detail, the large column of the basilica with the marble relief attached to it, from front right
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Creator:
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Antonio Rossellino (Italian sculptor, 1427-1479)
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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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Piazza di Santa Croce, 16; first southern column in the basilica
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GPS:
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+43.768417+11.262722
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Date:
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ca. 1478-1479 (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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relief (sculpture)
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Work Type 2:
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monument
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Work Type 3:
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holy water stoup
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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porphyry; white marble; bronze
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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death or burial; funerary art; New Testament; Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1449-1492; Pazzi Conspiracy
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Description:
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The work was created by Antonio Rossellino after 1478, the year in which the client Francesco Nori, head of the Medici bank, died saving the life of Lorenzo de ’Medici during the bloody Pazzi Conspiracy. The floor tomb is at the foot of the first southern column in the basilica; mounted to it are a small base surround, a holy water font with bronze candelabra, and a marble relief that rises vertically like an altarpiece. The Madonna and Child are depicted against a mandorla of red porphyry. Rising behind this is a finial-topped, tent-like drape with a fine bas-relief that actually replicates a pattern of velvet brocade in use at the time. The work is popularly known as the Madonna del latte, although reasons for the title are not clear. (Source: Santa Croce in Florence [website, blog]; https://santacroceinflorence.wordpress.com/)
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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-RA-ML-B08
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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