Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Burial of St. John the Baptist [North and East Wall Fragments]
Image View:
East wall, Burial at upper left, votive Madonna of Humility next to niche
Creator:
Jacopo Salimbeni (Italian painter, active ca. 1404-1427); Lorenzo Salimbeni (Italian painter, 1374-ca. 1420)
Location:
repository: Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista (Urbino, Marches, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Francesco Barocci, 31
GPS:
43.7256 12.6345
Date:
1416 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Late Gothic
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Relation Work:
partOf Oratory of St. John the Baptist Fresco Cycle
Subjects:
cycles or series; death or burial; funerary art; saints; John, the Baptist, Saint
Description:
The Oratory of St. John the Baptist (Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista) is a 14th-century small chapel or prayer hall best known for its Late Gothic style fresco cycle (1416) by the brothers Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni. Across the inner façade (the north wall) the cycle utilized only the upper register, continuing from there directly into the upper register of the long eastern wall. Since the burial of the Baptist's headless corpse is already shown next to the first window, the remaining paintings of the upper register of this long wall, now destroyed, must have presented subsequent episodes. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/in dex.html)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-LJS-OSJB-LE-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Burial of St. John the Baptist [North and East Wall Fragments]