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Life Of The Virgin (Filippo Lippi)
''Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary'' (Italian - ''Le Storie della Vergine'') is a cycle of frescos by Filippo Lippi in Spoleto Cathedral. History The cycle was commissioned in 1466, when Lippi had completed his ''Stories of Saint Stephen and Saint John the Baptist'' at Prato Cathedral, and was abruptly terminated by Lippi's death in 1469, caused by poison according to Vasari's ''Lives of the Artists''. His studio assistants completed the work in around three months. Lippi was buried in Spoleto Cathedral despite Lorenzo the Magnificent's request for the remains to be returned to Florence - Spoleto replied that unlike Florence their great new cathedral had no illustrious men buried in it. Scenes From left to right the cycle shows: * Annunciation * Dormition (centre, out of chronological sequence, probably at the commissioner's request due to the cathedral's dedication to the Assumption Assumption, in Christianity, refers to the Assumption of Mary, a belief in the taking up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Fresco On Duomo Of Spoleto
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early Middle Ages, Early, High Middle Ages, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralised authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
