Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Ascension of Christ [fresco fragments]
Image View:
Detail, one fragment of a musical angel (playing a triangle) (cat. 40269.14.9)
Creator:
Melozzo da Forlì (Italian painter, 1438-1494)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40269.14.1 through 40269.14.14
Location Note:
Pinacoteca, Room IV
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
ca. 1480 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster (fragments removed and resupported)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Description:
The 14 fragments with the Apostles and angel musicians together with the figure of Christ, (now in the Quirinal Palace) were part of the old decoration of the apse of the Church of the SS. Apostoli in Rome illustrating the Ascension of Christ. The fresco, which was destroyed in 1711, was painted around 1480, shortly after the restoration of the church was ordered (1475) by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (pontiff from 1503 to 1513). The solemn, monumental figures, strongly foreshortened, testify to the full maturity of the great artist from Forlì, a follower of Piero della Francesca, and his skill in the use of perspective. (Source: Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) [website]; http://mv.vatican.va /)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-MELO-VM-A-F01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Ascension of Christ [fresco fragments]