Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Florence Baptistery; Mosaic Ceiling
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Florence Baptistery; Mosaic Ceiling
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Image View:
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Detail, Last Judgment; the damned in the lower register at the left hand of Christ
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Creator:
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Cimabue (Italian mosaicist, ca. 1240-before 1302); Corso di Buono (Italian mosaicist, active late 13th century); Fra Jacopo (Italian mosaicist, active 1225)
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Location:
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repository: Florence Baptistery (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza San Giovanni
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GPS:
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+43.773224+11.254602
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Date:
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ca. 1225-1330 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Gothic (Medieval); Italo-Byzantine
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Work Type 1:
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ceiling
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Work Type 2:
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mosaic (visual work)
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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glass tesserae, some with gold leaf enclosed
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Technique:
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mosaic (process)
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Subjects:
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cycles or series; New Testament; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Angels; Bible; Jesus Christ; John, the Baptist, Saint
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Description:
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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)
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Image Description:
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This scene is particularly famous; evil doers are burnt by fire, roasted on spits, crushed with stones, bitten by snakes, gnawed and chewed by hideous beasts.
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A2-I-F-BSG-M-A18
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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