Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Study for Fall of Manna Lunettes
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Image View:
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Preparatory drawing for the lunettes and central panel (display image in museum)
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Creator:
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Giorgio Vasari (Italian painter, 1511-1574)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Regionale della Sicilia (Palermo, Sicily, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Abatellis
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GPS:
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+38.1167+13.3711
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Date:
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ca. 1544 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
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Work Type 1:
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cartoon (working drawing)
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Classification:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Material:
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sanguine (red chalk); paper
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Technique:
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drawing (image-making)
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Subjects:
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human figure; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Bible; Exodus (Bible); Israelites; lunette
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Description:
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Originally from the Olivetan Monastery (church and convent), Naples. Vasari had a long-standing relationship with the Olivetans across Italy, who had visual awareness of current ideas; the Abbot General even wrote to Vasari about a desire to decorate the guest quarters (foresteria) in Naples with a painted vault like the room of the giants in the Palazzo de Te, Mantua. Vasari created these vertical lunettes as part of the decoration of the sacristy in the Olivetan church of Sant Anna dei Lombardi (Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto). This is the preparatory drawing. (Source: Rubin, Patricia Lee; Giorgio Vasari: Art and History, New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1995 (0300049099, 9780300049091))
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-VASARI-LPAS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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