Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
God the Father
Image View:
Overall view of the oculus with fresco and the surrounding stuccowork
Creator:
Francesco Cozza (Italian painter, 1605-1682)
Location:
repository: Santa Maria della Pace (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Arco della Pace 5
GPS:
41.89987 12.47164
Date:
ca. 1630 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Seventeenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Work Type 2:
stuccowork
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco); stuccowork
Technique:
carving (processes); fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
rulers and leaders; Bible; Chigi, Agostino, 1466-1520
Description:
The shallow dome has eight wide rays each with a flaming torch in stucco, and these rays meet at an octagonal oculus containing a fresco of God the Father by Francesco Cozza. The sectors are coffered in hexagons containing the Chigi and Rovere family emblems. (Source: Churches of Rome Wiki [website]; http://romanchurches .wikia.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
6A1-FLORENTINO-GF-A0 2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

God the Father