# Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(1\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SPINELLO ARETINO]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Fresco, 51 x 51 cm ## Commentary In 1348, \(Gio\)Vanni Manetti del Buono wrote instructions in his will that his chapel dedicated to John the Baptist \(his name saint\) in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence should be painted. The decoration of the chapel, situated to the right of the choir, consisted of six scenes from the life of St John the Baptist: the Annunciation to Zacharias; the Visitation; the Birth and Naming of John the Baptist; the Baptist preaching in the Desert and the Baptism; the Decollation and Burial of the Baptist; the Baptist visited in Prison by Two Apostles and the Feast of Herod. The present fresco is one of the twelve fragments to survive from a fresco cycle devoted to scenes from the life of St John the Baptist in the Manetti Chapel, identified on the basis of engravings made by Thomas Patch in 1772. The frescoes were already in poor condition in 1763-64 when they were restored. When the church of the Carmine was largely destroyed by fire in 1771, they suffered comparatively little. Patch made the engravings in 1772 and removed some fragments from the wall, the rest was presumably destroyed in the reconstruction of the church. The fragment, showing two haloed mourners, is from the scene of Decollation and Burial of the Baptist. By 1815 it was in the collection of Samuel Rogers, as shown in a mezzotint by Charles Mottram. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Christ Blessing]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Fall of Lucifer \(fragment\)]() - [Feast of Herod]() - [Four Evangelists with their Symbols \(vault fresco\)]() - [Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(10\)]() - [Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(11\)]() - [Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(12\)]() - [Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(2\)]() - [Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(3\)]() - [Fragment from the Manetti Chapel \(4\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()