Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Flight into Egypt
Image View:
Overall view; St. Joseph uses a stick to urge forward the donkey carrying Mary and infant Jesus; a servant leads the donkey
Creator:
Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1405-1481)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40145
Location Note:
Pinacoteca, Room II
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
ca. 1450-1455 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Late Gothic
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
predella
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera paint; gold gilding on wood panel
Technique:
gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Description:
One of two panels of a dismantled predella with Stories of the Virgin, belonging to the same (unidentified) polyptych. Sano was a prolific and popular artist in Siena with a large workshop. He is also famed as an illuminator; his miniature scenes are characterized by their lively narrative and clear, rich coloring, qualities also seen in this small panel. (Source: Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) [website]; http://mv.vatican.va /)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-SANO-VM-FIE-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Flight into Egypt