Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Baptistery Altar; Saint John in Glory and Candle-bearing Angels
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Baptistery Altar; Saint John in Glory and Candle-bearing Angels
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Image View:
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St. John Baptist, detail
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Creator:
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Girolamo Ticciati (Italian sculptor, 1671-1744)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Duomo, 9
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GPS:
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+43.772333+11.256222
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Date:
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1732 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque; Eighteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Angels; John, the Baptist, Saint; Restoration and conservation
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Description:
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The new main altar of the Florence Baptistery was completed in 1732 with works by Girolamo Ticciati: a Saint John in Glory and candle-bearing angels. These dynamic statues, originally surrounded by gilded rays, were accompanied by reliefs narrating the saint’s life on the altar-front and chancel baluster, and by figures of eagles with bales of fabric between their talons, emblems of the Florentine guild paying for the modernization project: the Arte di Calimala, to whose care the embellishment of the Baptistery had long been entrusted. The statues were removed to the museum in 1912 and the medieval altar restored. (Source: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo [website]; https://www.museumflorence.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-TICCIATI-MD-SJ-A06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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