Ascension

Ascensione
Author: 

Barnaba da Modena (Modena 1328/30 - post 1386)

Type: 
Painting
Year: 
1372 - 1374
Material and technique: 
tempera on panel
Size: 
cm 59 x 46
Origin: 
the Sterbini collection (date of purchase, 1936)
Inventory: 
inv. PC 347

Masterpieces of the hall

The hall

Sala I - L’Italia centrale dal Medioevo al Rinascimento

The room is dedicated to Italian painting of religious subjects of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth century; all the paintings in this space are on panel. The bigger pictures ("altar pieces") decorated the altars of churches or chapels, the smaller ones were part of multiple panels (polyptychs). Especially in Florence, the circular format was typical of the devotional paintings for private residences and not for churches.

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