03 — ARTWORK
Chancel chapels seen from the west
- MEDIUM
- Fresco
- TYPE
- Religious
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This picture shows the interior of the Franciscan church of Santa Croce in Florence, with the high altar area in the centre, with a 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. cycle of 1385-87 by Agnolo Gaddi. To the left of the main Chancelinterchangeable with choir, sometimes the area in front of the altar. Chapela small separate place for worship, either part of a large church or a separate building., is the Tosinghi-Spinelli Chapel, while to the right the Bardi Chapel with Giotto's frescoes can be seen.
Agnolo Gaddi's portrayal of the Legend of the True Cross in the chancel was derived from a collection of the thirteenth-century religious writings by Jacopo da Voragine known as the Golden Legend. The frescoes provided the pictorial model which the FranciscansA Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars founded by St. Francis of Assisi (given papal approval in 1223). Committed to charitable and missionary work, they stressed the veneration of the Holy Virgin, a fact that was highly significant in the development of images of the Madonna in Italian art. In time the absolute poverty of the early Franciscans gave way to a far more relaxed view of property and wealth, and the Franciscans became some of the most important patrons of art in the early Renaissance. followed for the next century (see the fresco cycle of Piero della Francesca in Arezzo).
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