Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Blessing of the Young Baptist
Alternate Title:
Blessing of the Baptist by Saint Zechariah
Image View:
Detail, left side, onlookers leaning on a balustrade (all in 16th century Italian style)
Creator:
Franciabigio (Italian painter, 1484-1525)
Location:
repository: Chiostro dello Scalzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Camillo Benso Cavour, 69
GPS:
43.779619 11.259464
Date:
1518-1519 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique); grisaille
Measurements:
194 cm (height, approx., each panel) x 201 cm (width, approx., each panel)
Relation Work:
partOf Cloister of the Scalzo Fresco Cycle
Description:
Franciabigio's frescoes are the fourth and fifth narrative units in the life of the Baptist, occupying the left two spaces on the east wall, although they were not painted in chronological order. Andrea Del Sarto, commissioned with the series, left for France in 1518-1519, at which time Franciabigio was called in to continue the work. He executed the four atticae and entablature on the whole of the east wall and the first two narrative scenes on that wall, including this one. He may, however, have followed preexisting designs from Del Sarto for these. This scene shows the boy Baptist being blessed by his father, Zechariah, who was given the gift of prophecy, and foretold the future ministry of John. (Source: McKillop, Susan Regan; Franciabigio, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974 (0520016882, 9780520016880))
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-FBIGI-CS-S4-A10
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Blessing of the Young Baptist