Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Glory of Florentine Saints
Alternate Title:
Gloria dei santi fiorentini
Image View:
View at the crossing of the transepts and nave showing windows and a closed small cupola over the oculus
Creator:
Vincenzo Meucci (Italian painter, 1694-1766)
Location:
site: San Lorenzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza S. Lorenzo, 9
GPS:
43.774917 11.253861
Date:
1742 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque; Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
saints; Medici family; Late Baroque
Description:
Under the patronage of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, the last of the Medici ruling line, various important works were undertaken in San Lorenzo, Florence, between 1738 and 1743. Among them, Vincenzo Meucci frescoed the cupola in 1742 with the Glory of Florentine Saints. Among his pupils are Tommaso Gherardini. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-MEUC-SL-GFS-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Glory of Florentine Saints