Artist:
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Vincenzo Foppa
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Title:
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Saint Paul
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Date:
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c. 1450-1460
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Medium:
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Tempera on panel
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Dimensions:
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21 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (54.93 x 30.8 cm) (image)
21 7/8 x 12 1/2 x 5/8 in. (55.56 x 31.75 x 1.59 cm) (panel)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 343
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Saint Paul and Saint Sirus are panel paintings likely from the same large altarpiece. Panel painting was a lengthy process that required many steps. The panel is a plank of wood that was prepared with many layers of gesso, a glue-size-chalk substance that forms the white base layer of the paintings. Gesso is also used to create the raised areas, or pastiglia, seen in each painting: the top of staff and edges of the headpiece in Saint Sirus and areas on the hilt of the sword in Saint Paul. Red bole, a size-clay mixture, was added to areas that were to be gilded with gold leaf. The final step was painting the figures in numerous layers of egg tempera, a paint made of ground pigments, water, and egg yolk.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Foppa, Vincenzo
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Nationality:
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Italian (Brescia)
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Life Dates:
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Italian (Brescia), 1427 - about 1515
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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a pair with Saint Sirus (66.37.1); probably they were the lateral wings of a triptych dedicated to the Virgin Mary; arched top
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Italy, Northern, , Brescia
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Accession #:
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66.37.2
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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