Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Annunciation with Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony Abbot
Alternate Title:
Annunciazione, San Nicola di Bari, Sant'Antonio Abate
Image View:
Overall view
Creator:
Giovanni del Biondo (Italian painter, active 1356, died 1399)
Location:
repository: Museo dell'Ospedale degli Innocenti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata
GPS:
43.776389 11.261111
Date:
1372-1376 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fourteenth century; Gothic (Medieval)
Work Type 1:
altarpiece
Work Type 2:
panel painting
Work Type 3:
triptych
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera paint on wood panel with gold leaf
Technique:
gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
185 cm (height, central panel) x 107 cm (width, central panel)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Gabriel (Archangel); Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Nicholas, Saint, Bishop of Myra
Description:
Giovanni del Biondo may have trained in the workshop of Andrea and Nardo di Cione where he also worked at the start of his career. In his later paintings he created a greater sense of depth but his figures became more formalized and hardened. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BIONDO-GO-A-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Annunciation with Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony Abbot