Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
St. Dominic and His Friars Served by Angels
Alternate Title:
Supper of Saint Dominic
Image View:
Detail, lower part of painting with Dominican saints (and portraits of Dominicans) being served by two angels
Creator:
Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (Italian painter, 1492-1544)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco, Large Refectory
GPS:
43.778198 11.259329
Date:
1536 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
allegory; New Testament; saints; Dominicans; Jesus Christ; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Crucifixion
Description:
The Supper of St. Dominic, a large fresco in the refectory of San Marco in Florence, was painted in 1536. According to Vasari, its conservative style was imposed by the Dominican patrons, who rejected Sogliani’s more modern design on the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes. Finally the artist produced a more pedantic and restrained subject, entitled St. Dominic and his Friars Fed by Angels, which contains added portraits and saints, as well as a Crucifixion. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-SOGL-CSM-SDF-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

St. Dominic and His Friars Served by Angels