Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Communion of the Apostles
Alternate Title:
Institution of Eucharist
Image View:
Overll view without frame
Creator:
Joos van Wassenhove (Netherlandish painter, active 1460-1480)
Location:
repository: Galleria Nazionale delle Marche (Urbino, Marches, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Ducale di Urbino Piazza Rinascimento 13
GPS:
43.723333 12.637778
Date:
1473-1474 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian; Netherlandish
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
altarpiece
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
331 cm (height) x 335 cm (width)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Angels; Apostles; Federico, da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, 1422-1482; Jesus Christ
Description:
Joos was a South Netherlandish painter, also active in Italy. It is generally accepted that he worked at Urbino, where early sources mention a Netherlandish painter, Giusto da Guanto (Justus of Ghent), who was responsible for the altarpiece of the Communion of the Apostles (Urbino, Pal. Ducale) of 1473-1474. The influence of van der Goes (a known associate of Joos) in this work reinforces the identification of Joos van Wassenhove with Justus of Ghent. Federico da Montefeltro gave him the commission for the Communion of the Apostles painted for the brotherhood of the Corpus Domini in Urbino. Among the onlookers on the right of the painting is a portrait of Federico. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-GHENT-GNM-CA-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Communion of the Apostles