Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Cappella del Legato; Life of the Virgin [fresco fragments]
Image View:
Detail, grisaille figures surrounding a faux medallion below the panels of the Life of the Virgin
Creator:
Prospero Fontana (Italian painter, 1512-1597)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Comunale, Collezioni Comunali d'Arte (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo d’Accursio; Piazza Maggiore 6
GPS:
44.494167 11.341389
Date:
1562 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique); grisaille
Subjects:
cycles or series; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; trompe l'oeil
Description:
The Palazzo d’Accursio is the former town hall (until 2008) and is now a museum. The Farnese Hall (Sala Farnese), on the second floor, was rebuilt in 1665 by Cardinal Girolamo Farnese; these fresco fragments of a cycle of the Life of the Virgin were painted in the preexisting chapel (Cappella del Legato) in 1562. Around 1560 Fontana had worked briefly with Primaticcio at Fontainebleau in France; he also worked with Vasari and first began painting in the Mannerist style during this period. The fresco fragments were restored and the chapel opened to the public in 1991. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-PFONTAN-CF-2-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Cappella del Legato; Life of the Virgin [fresco fragments]