Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Christ in the Sepulcher with Two Angels (sinopia)
Alternate Title:
Christ in the Tomb Supported by Two Angels
Image View:
Overall view of detached sinopia (underdrawing) of lunette (with black background)
Creator:
Andrea del Castagno (Italian painter, ca. 1421-1457)
Location:
repository: Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. San Marco e Cenacoli no. 754
Location Note:
Via XXVII Aprile 1
GPS:
43.778668 11.256569
Date:
ca. 1447 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
sinopia (drawing)
Classification:
drawing
Material:
sanguine chalk (sinopia) on arriccio layer of plaster
Technique:
drawing (image-making)
Description:
Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339. In 1447 the abbess hired Andrea del Castagno to decorate the west wall of the convent’s refectory (Cenacolo) with frescoes of the Last Supper, the Resurrection, the Crucifixion and the Entombment. The three scenes from the Passion suffered badly from damp and were detached in 1953, revealing the sinopie (underdrawing) beneath. These are sufficiently well preserved to testify to Andrea’s power and incisiveness as a draftsman on a monumental scale, qualities seen to similar advantage in the sinopia of the undocumented, badly damaged fresco of Christ in the Tomb Supported by Two Angels, from the lunette above a door of the cloister of Sant'Apollonia. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-CAA-SA-DC-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Christ in the Sepulcher with Two Angels (sinopia)