Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
San Pietro in Vincoli; Tribune (Apse) Frescoes
Image View:
Detail, scene from the story of the miraculous crucifix of Beirut (recounted in the Golden Legend)
Creator:
Giacomo Coppi (Italian painter, 1523-1591)
Location:
repository: San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
GPS:
41.893872 12.493069
Date:
1577 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
cycles or series; New Testament; saints; Angels; Anti-Semitism; Peter, the Apostle, Saint; Saint Eudoxia
Description:
The apse frescoes contain the scenes: Christ blessing with the Madonna ringed with angels with symbols of the Passion and musician angels (central dome), Stories of the miraculous crucifix of Beirut (recounted in the Golden Legend) (two registers in the half-dome), and Stories of Saint Peter (large panels above the wooden choir). Coppi was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. He worked mainly in Rome and Florence in a Mannerist style. (Source: Fondazione Federico Zeri (University of Bologna); http://catalogo.fond azionezeri.unibo.it/ )
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
6A1-COPPI-SPV-AF-A17
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

San Pietro in Vincoli; Tribune (Apse) Frescoes