Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Miracle of the Chains [ceiling fresco]
Image View:
Overall view in the coffered vault of the nave
Creator:
Giovanni Battista Parodi II (Italian painter, 1674-1730)
Location:
repository: San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
4/a Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli
GPS:
41.893872 12.493069
Date:
1706 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
saints; Alexander I, Pope, -115 or 116; Peter, the Apostle, Saint; miracles
Description:
Parodi spent most of his career in Milan and Bergamo. In Rome, his sole prominent public commission was for the fresco of the ceiling of San Pietro in Vincoli in 1706; a smaller commission was for the vault medallions (ca. 1706) in S Maria dell’Orto, Rome. In the scene of the Miracle of the Chains, Pope Alexander (Saint, died 115 CE as a martyr) heals the neck goiter of Saint Balbina by touching her with the chains that once bound St. Peter. (Or with his own chains in prison, blessed by St. Peter). (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BATTISTA-MOC-A11
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Miracle of the Chains [ceiling fresco]