Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna of the Earthquake
Alternate Title:
Madonna del Terremoto
Image View:
Detail, modern inscription describing votive offering to the Virgin and earthquake of 1505
Creator:
Francesco Francia (Italian painter, ca. 1450-1517)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Comunale, Collezioni Comunali d'Arte (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo d’Accursio, Sala d'Ercole; Piazza Maggiore 6
GPS:
44.494167 11.341389
Date:
1505 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
cityscape; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; earthquakes
Description:
The Madonna del Terremoto, shows the Virgin hovering over a topographically accurate view of the city. It was originally on a wall next to the nearby Cappella degli Anziani (Chapel of the Elders), as a votive offering for deliverance from the earthquake of 1505 and moved to the Sala d'Ercole in the nineteenth century. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-RAIBO-PC-MT-A07
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna of the Earthquake