Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Santa Croce Sacristy; Passion, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension
Image View:
Central panel, Crucifixion, by Taddeo Gaddi, ca. 1360
Creator:
attributed to Spinello Aretino (Italian painter, ca. 1350-1410); Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (Italian painter, died ca. 1416); Taddeo Gaddi (Italian painter, active mid-1320s, died 1366)
Location:
repository: Santa Croce (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Sacristy
GPS:
43.768417 11.262722
Date:
ca. 1360-1399 (inclusive)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fourteenth century; Late Gothic
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster (fresco)
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
cycles or series; New Testament; Franciscans; Jesus Christ
Description:
Taddeo Gaddi was Giotto's most important student, belonging to his workshop for twenty-four years. He produced a number of frescoes in Florence and Pisa, besides numerous panel paintings, but until his death in 1366 he was mainly active in Santa Croce, the Franciscan monastery in Florence, and his house and workshop were nearby. His late works, from around 1360, include the fresco of the Crucifixion in the sacristy, on the south wall. The flanking paintings were completed by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini and Spinello Aretino, some forty years later. Gerini painted the Resurrection and the Ascension at the top of the wall from 1390-1399. The Passion (Ascent to Calvary) is attributed to Spinello. (Source: Santa Croce in Florence [website, blog]; https://santacrocein florence.wordpress.c om/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
6A2-I-F-SC-S-B01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Santa Croce Sacristy; Passion, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension