Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Florence Baptistery; Mosaic Ceiling

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Florence Baptistery; Mosaic Ceiling
Image View: 
Detail, large medallion of Christ in Judgment by Fra Jacopo, in a Venetian Italo-Byzantine style
Creator: 
Cimabue (Italian mosaicist, ca. 1240-before 1302); Corso di Buono (Italian mosaicist, active late 13th century); Fra Jacopo (Italian mosaicist, active 1225)
Location: 
repository: Florence Baptistery (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza San Giovanni
GPS: 
+43.773224+11.254602
Date: 
ca. 1225-1330 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Gothic (Medieval); Italo-Byzantine
Work Type 1: 
ceiling
Work Type 2: 
mosaic (visual work)
Classification: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material: 
glass tesserae, some with gold leaf enclosed
Technique: 
mosaic (process)
Subjects: 
cycles or series; New Testament; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Angels; Bible; Jesus Christ; John, the Baptist, Saint
Description: 
The Baptistery was constructed between 1059 and 1128 in the Florentine Romanesque style. The octagon had been a common shape for baptisteries for many centuries since early Christian times. The mosaic ceiling was created over the course of a century in several different phases. An inscription mentions the Franciscan friar Jacobus and the date 1225; he was evidently Venetian trained and influenced by Byzantine art. He and his workshop are credited with the large Last Judgment. The key artists employed in the decade of the 1290s were Corso di Buono and Cimabue; 60 of the scenes were completed then. The drum of the octagonal dome is decorated with heads of prophets by artists from Siena; the work was completed around 1330. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
6A2-I-F-BSG-M-A14
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.