Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna and Child, the Trinity, St. Augustine and St. Athanasius of Alexandria
Alternate Title:
Virgin, the Trinity and Two Saints
Image View:
Detail, the rich robes of St. Athanasius of Alexandria
Creator:
Luca Signorelli (Italian painter, ca. 1450-1523)
Location:
repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 8369
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
ca. 1510-1514 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
altarpiece
Work Type 2:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera paint on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
272 cm (height) x 180 cm (width)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Michael (Archangel); sacra conversazione
Description:
The painting was commissioned by the Confraternità della Trinità dei Pellegrini of Cortona and shows a compact, tightly constructed composition. The Virgin and Child represent the central axis around which the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and Saints Augustine and Athanasius are grouped. An archaizing element is the glory of cherubim surrounding the symbolic apparition of the crucified Christ and God the Almighty. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/in dex.html)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-SIGN-UG-TT-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna and Child, the Trinity, St. Augustine and St. Athanasius of Alexandria