Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Virgin and the Child with Saint Michael and Saint Blaise
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Image View:
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Overall view
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Creator:
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Neri di Bicci (Italian painter, 1418-1492)
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Location:
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repository: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada) 1962.1374
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Location Note:
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1380 Sherbrooke Street West; Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace
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GPS:
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+45.4987-73.5801
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Date:
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ca. 1475 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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panel painting
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Work Type 3:
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predella
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint; tempera on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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255.2 cm (height) x 254 cm (width) x 37 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Michael (Archangel)
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Description:
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In the 1460s Neri began introducing the sort of illusionistically cast shadows found in this altarpiece. The inscription at the base of the main panel identifies the figures. The Virgin and Child are accompanied by Saint Blaise (holding an iron comb to untangle fibers, the symbol of his martyrdom) and the Archangel Michael (with a balance for souls). Kneeling at either side of the throne are the donors and, on the altarpiece’s predella (lower panel), is Christ rising from the sepulcher. At the left are Tobias with an angel, Saint Peter and the Virgin, and at the right are Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Assisi, perhaps the patron saints of the donors, whose crests are at either side of the predella. (Source: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BICCI-VCSM-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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