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TitleTransfiguration

Creator nameAngelico, Fra

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1440–1442

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

LocationConvento di San Marco, Florence

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsJesus Christ--TransfigurationPainting, RenaissanceMural painting and decoration, Italian

StatusCell 6

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2. A Medium Fulfilled: The Emergence of the Marble Temple

Fabio Barry

Description: Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the...

Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

~Only in Egypt had a monumental ashlar architecture emerged in the third millennium BC, thanks to her rich holdings of sandstone, limestone, travertine (“alabaster”), and granite. The result was the colossal temples, obelisks, and pyramids that still stand in abundance. There was no such abundance of stone in Mesopotamia, and no such architecture until...

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Fabio Barry

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.19-48

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00283.3

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, AncientArchitecture, MinoanArchitecture, MycenaeanArchitecture, GreekBuilding materialsSculpture, AncientTemples, GreekMarble in architectureMarble sculpture, AncientSculpture, Classical

2. The Dilemma of Naturalism

Marcia B. Hall

Description: The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco,...

The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio

In 1490, when Savonarola was summoned back to Florence at the behest of Pico della Mirandola and Lorenzo de’ Medici, he launched his fiery campaign against the luxury and materialism of the Florentines with threats of the imminent judgment of God...

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Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.41-63

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00155.005

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyNaturalism in artPainting--TechniqueSavonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498Art centers--Italy

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