Figure 149

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Description: Crossing the Red Sea and Moses appointing Joshua

TitleCrossing the Red Sea and Moses appointing Joshua

Creator nameBronzino, Agnolo

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1542

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

LocationPalazzo Vecchio, Florence

SubjectsMural painting and decoration, Italian--Italy--FlorencePalazzo Vecchio (Florence, Italy)Mannerism (Art)--ItalyHistory of Biblical events--Art

StatusChapel of Eleonora of Toledo

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Chapter 6: Ducal Florence

Marcia B. Hall

After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century

When cosimo de’ medici was elected second duke of the Florentine state in 1537 he was a youth of seventeen who had no expectations of assuming such a role and no training for it. Only disastrous circumstances,...

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Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.215-256

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100113&redirecttoanchor=201786

Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyFlorence--HistoryVasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574Salviati, Francesco, 1510-1563Bronzino, Agnolo, 1503-1572Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574Tapestry, Renaissance--ItalyPalazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy)Altarpieces, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceSanti, di Tito, 1536-1603Allori, Alessandro, 1535-1607Cigoli, Ludovico Cardi da, 1559-1613

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