Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Baptism of Christ (cell 24)
Image View:
Detail at right, St. Dominic and a female Dominican saint
Creator:
workshop of Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco, Dormitory; Piazza San Marco 3
GPS:
43.778198 11.259329
Date:
ca. 1440-1445 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Angels; Dominicans; Jesus Christ; John, the Baptist, Saint
Description:
The attribution and chronology of the 43 frescoes in the cells of San Marco is an enormous and probably insoluble problem. The overall conception and the design of most of the individual scenes are undoubtedly Fra Angelico’s. The major hand in cell 24 is not Fra Angelico's and some have attributed it to Zanobi Strozzi. It is known that Strozzi did paint the angels in the Nativity in cell 5. The use of the sweeping landscape is seen in other of his works. Fra Angelico may have painted the figures of the Dominican saints at right, whereas the kneeling angels on the left may be by Benozzo Gozzoli. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-FA-CSM-BCM-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Baptism of Christ (cell 24)