Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Judgment of Seleucus
Alternate Title:
Giudizio di Zaleuco
Image View:
Detail, the son of Seleucus is blinded in one eye
Creator:
Perino del Vaga (Italian painter, 1501-1547)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 5380
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.7684 11.2556
Date:
ca. 1521-1525 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco, detached fragment)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
148 cm (height) x 197 cm (width)
Subjects:
cycles or series; literary or legendary
Description:
This is a detached fresco fragment, removed from its original location in a salon of the Palazzo Baldassini, Rome. There is a second fragment from the salon, also in the Uffizi, titled Tarquin the Great founds the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol. Perino del Vaga was one of the artists who worked with Raphael on the Vatican Loggia. The painting relates the story that Zaleucus (Seleucus), as the lawgiver of Locris, had to pronounce sentence on his own son for adultery, the punishment which was being blinded in both eyes. Seleucus blinded himself in one eye and had his son blinded in one eye. (Source: Fondazione Federico Zeri (University of Bologna); http://catalogo.fond azionezeri.unibo.it/ )
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PERIN-UG-THS-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Judgment of Seleucus