Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Transfiguration
Alternate Title:
Transfiguration (Cell 6)
Image View:
Detail, later saints portrayed flanking the Transfiguration, Saint Dominic at bottom
Creator:
Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco; Piazza San Marco, 1
GPS:
43.778664 11.259584
Date:
ca. 1440-1445 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
180 cm (height, approx.) x 150 cm (width, approx.)
Description:
Fra Angelico was entrusted with a program of decoration that included an altarpiece for the church and over 50 frescoes for the convent itself. Upstairs in the dormitory, each of the 43 original cells received a frescoed composition and three others were painted in the corridors. It is thought that the Dominicans were the first order to specify the use of images in this context, though apart from those at San Marco no other such suites are known. The attribution and chronology of the 43 frescoes in the cells is an enormous and probably insoluble problem. The frescoes wholly or almost wholly painted by the master are those in cleric's cells 3, 6, 7, 9 and 10, including this one, the Transfiguration, in Cell 6. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-FA-CSM-C6-A11
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Transfiguration