03 — ARTWORK
St Augustine
- MEDIUM
- Fresco, 152 x 112 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Botticelli learned the basic techniques associated with frescoWall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small area can be painted in a day, and these areas, drying to a slightly different tint, can in time be seen. Small amounts of retouching and detail work could be carried out on the dry plaster, a technique known as a secco fresco. painting while working for his teacher, Filippo Lippi. We know of documents, telling of paintings that have since been destroyed, that Botticelli was greatly in demand as a master of fresco paintings during the last three decades of the QuattrocentoThe 15th century in Italian art. The term is often used of the new style of art that was characteristic of the Early Renaissance, in particular works by Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico and others. It was preceded by the Trecento and followed by the Cinquecento.. He painted for the Vespucci family the St Augustine in the church of Ognissanti. It was created in competition with <A onclick="return OpenOther('/html/g/ghirland/domenico/3fresco/1jerome.html')" HREF="/html/g/ghirland/domenico/3fresco/1jerome.html">Ghirlandaio's fresco</A> of St Jerome.
St Augustine has been interrupted at his studies. He is deeply moved as he raises his eyes, and, in an expansive gesture, lays his right hand to his chest: for he is seeing a vision of the death of St Jerome.
The entablatureIn classical architecture, the part of a building between the capitals of the columns and the roof. It consists of the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice. at the top is an architectural feature which Botticelli continued into the depth of the picture, in order to place a row of large books and astronomical instruments on it. Botticelli shows the room and the saint from a low angle which enables the artist to give greater emphasis to Augustine's dramatic gesture.
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@online{wga-r1a89596c415454,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {St Augustine by BOTTICELLI, Sandro},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-07},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/botticelli-sandro-r2daea6e03de79d/st-augustine-r1a89596c415454},
urldate = {2026-09-07},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-07. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
