Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Filippo Strozzi Chapel
Image View:
Detail, left side, rear wall painted as a Classical triumphal arch, painted in grisaille with touches of color
Creator:
Benedetto da Maiano (Italian sculptor, 1442-1497); Filippino Lippi (Italian painter, ca.1457-1504)
Location:
repository: Santa Maria Novella (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 18
GPS:
43.7746 11.2493
Date:
ca. 1487-1502 (inclusive)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
chapel (room or structure)
Work Type 2:
fresco (painting)
Work Type 3:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster; basanite; marble; stained-glass
Technique:
carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); grisaille; stained glass
Relation Work:
partOf Santa Maria Novella
Subjects:
allegory; death or burial; funerary art; New Testament; saints; John, the Apostle, Saint; grisaille; triumphal arch
Description:
The Chapel of Filippo Strozzi is located in the east (right) transept between the Bardi Chapel and the Tornabuoni (or Maggiore) Chapel. The series of frescoes by Filippino Lippi depict the lives of Saints Philip the Apostle and John the Evangelist and were completed in 1502. These scenes, enriched with exuberant ornament, much of it derived from antiquity, culminate on the altar wall with a tour de force of illusionistic architecture: a Classical triumphal arch, painted in grisaille with touches of color, surrounding the arched recess that holds Filippo Strozzi’s basanite tomb (1491-1495), with angels and Virgin and Child above by Benedetto da Maiano. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A2-I-F-SMN-SFC-BW-A 07
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Filippo Strozzi Chapel