03 — ARTWORK
Singing gallery
- MEDIUM
- Fresco
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1000 × 968 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
The singing galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen). was carved out of the thickness of the wall, damaging the thirteenth-century pictorial decoration. The 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. decoration in the niche, dedicated to St Stanislas, is a mature masterpieceA term now loosely applied to the finest work by a particular artist or to any work of art of acknowledged greatness or of preeminence in its field. Originally it meant the piece of work by which a craftsman, having finished his training, gained the rank of'master' in his guild. of Puccio Capanna.
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@online{wga-r34da3797132c18,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Singing gallery by CAPANNA, Puccio},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-07},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/capanna-puccio-r36b20c5cea7b4a/singing-gallery-r34da3797132c18},
urldate = {2026-09-07},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-07. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY PUCCIO CAPANNA
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