The St. Lucy Altarpiece (detail)

Permanent Link:

http://usf.sobek.ufl.edu/SFS0034679/00001

Material Information

Title:

The St. Lucy Altarpiece (detail)

Alternate title:

Santa Lucia dei Magnoli's Altarpiece

Physical Description:

Photograph

Language:

English

Creator:

Veneziano, Domenico, d. 1461 ( Artist : painter )
Galleria degli Uffizi. ID=IFU

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Florence Italy
Florence, Italy
Style: Italian Early Renaissance
School: Early Renaissance
Movement: Renaissance
Florentine
Painting;

Genre:

Painting
Painting
picture   ( marcgt )

Notes

Summary:

The work, signed and dating around 1445, comes from the Florentine church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli and shows the Madonna enthroned with Child among the saints (left to right) Francis, John the Baptist (whose face is the self-portrait of the painter), Zenobius and Lucy. This sacra conversazione is placed in a completely Renaissance architectural setting, where the perspective study get perfection with the foreshortening of the floor. The natural light and the absence of gold on the backgrond of the picture, make this altarpiece one of the first achievements of the new Renaissance art.

General Note:

Beginning Date: 1440

General Note:

Completion Date: 1442

General Note:

Inventory: 884

Record Information

Source Institution:

University of South Florida Library

Holding Location:

University of South Florida

Rights Management:

All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.

Resource Identifier:

usfldc doi - A01-LIF1207
usfldc handle - a1.lif1207

System ID:

SFS0034679:00001