Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Sacred Allegory
Alternate Title:
Allegoria sacra
Image View:
Detail, center children playing with trees and fruit on an inlaid terrace (which may represent the Paradise Garden)
Creator:
Giovanni Bellini (Italian painter, ca.1431-1516)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 903
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.7684 11.2556
Date:
ca. 1490-1499 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
73 cm (height) x 119 cm (width)
Subjects:
allegory; New Testament; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
There is no documentation about the commission and the original location of the work, which is known to have been part of the Austrian Imperial collections in Vienna in the 18th century. It has also been attributed to Giorgione or Marco Basaiti. In the early 20th century, Ludwig interpreted it as a pictoral transcription of the early 14th French poem Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme ("Pilgrimage of the Soul"), by Guillaume de Deguileville. According to him, the painting represents the ideal path of purification of the soul. The path begins with St. Anthony Abbot and ends with the Virgin Mary as an intercessor for mankind. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BELLINI-UG-SA-A0 2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Sacred Allegory