Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Massacre of the Innocents (Floor Mosaic)
Image View:
Left half of the marble inlay panel
Creator:
Matteo di Giovanni (Italian artist, ca. 1430-1495)
Location:
repository: Siena Cathedral (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza del Duomo
GPS:
43.3177 11.329
Date:
1481 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
floor (surface element)
Work Type 2:
opus sectile (visual work)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
colored marble inlay
Technique:
opus sectile (technique)
Subjects:
New Testament; Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee; Sienese
Description:
The inlaid marble mosaic floor is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, covering the whole floor of Siena Cathedral. This undertaking went on from 1372 to 1547, with about forty artists contributing. The floor consists of 56 panels in different sizes. The large panel in the north transept, The Slaughter of the Innocents (Strage degli Innocenti) is to a design of Matteo di Giovanni (1481). (Source: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena; http://operaduomo.si ena.it/en/sites/muse um/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-GIOVAN-SC-MI-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Massacre of the Innocents (Floor Mosaic)