material used: fresco

instance of: fresco (402) | painting (251) | mural (20) | painted ceiling (2) | film (1) | reredos (1) | chapel (1) | fresco painting (1) | grave (1) | room (1) | real property (1) | lunette (1) | lost artwork (1) | painting series (1) | cycle of frescos (1) | group of paintings (1)

commissioned by: Agostino Chigi (3) | Enrico degli Scrovegni (3) | Julius II (2) | Felice Brancacci (2) | Niccolò Machiavelli (1) | Urban VII (1) | Urban IV (1) | House of Medici (1) | Carthusians (1) | Piero Soderini (1) | Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1) | Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1)

owned by: Padua (5) | Enrico degli Scrovegni (2) | Switzerland (1) | Bern (1) | Catholic Church (1) | Vatican Museums (1) | Carmelites (1) | Carthusians (1) | Community of the Chemin Neuf (1) | Sant'Apollonia (1) | School of the Holy (1)

movement: Proto-Renaissance (92) | High Renaissance (86) | Italian Renaissance (63) | ancient Roman mural painting (32) | Early Renaissance (29) | Venetian school (7) | Romanesque art (4) | Renaissance art (4) | rococo (3) | mannerism (2) | Roman art (2) | Renaissance (1) | neoclassicism (1) | Baroque (1) | Gothic art (1) | realism (1) | Gothic painting (1) | italian primitives (1)

genre: religious painting (165) | religious art (132) | mythological painting (59) | allegory (9) | nude (8) | portrait (7) | still life (4) | history painting (4) | landscape art (3) | trompe-l'œil (3) | public art (3) | equestrian portrait (3) | architectural painting (3) | self-portrait (2) | allegorical painting (2) | religious text (1) | silent film (1) | figurative art (1)

based on: Book of Genesis (7) | Annunciation (5) | Gospel of James (5) | Madonna and Child (5) | Greek mythology (3) | Noli me tangere (2) | Adoration of the Magi (2) | crucifixion (2) | Harry Potter (1) | New Testament (1) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Last Supper (1) | Sacra Conversazione (1) | Gospel of Matthew (1) | Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (1) | Marriage at Cana (1) | flight into Egypt (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1)

artist: Giotto di Bondone (95) | anonymous (84) | Michelangelo (45) | Raphael (28) | Fra Angelico (23) | Giorgio Vasari (23) | Piero della Francesca (20) | Pietro Perugino (19) | Domenico Ghirlandaio (15) | Biagio Bellotti (15) | Bernardino Luini (14) | Pietro Lorenzetti (14) | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (12) | Sandro Botticelli (7) | Andrea del Castagno (7) | Andrea Mantegna (6) | Masaccio (6) | Antonio da Correggio (6)

part of the series: Ancestors of Christ (9) | The procession of the Magi (1)

depicts: woman (98) | man (90) | Virgin Mary (77) | Jesus Christ (68) | Child Jesus (36) | boy (33) | angel (18) | Peter (13) | mother (12) | long hair (10) | Mary Magdalena (10) | aureola (9) | horse (8) | Cupid (8) | Adam (8) | nudity (6) | tree (6) | Annunciation (6)

collection: Vatican Museums (58) | Scrovegni Chapel (53) | Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi (44) | Sistine Chapel (26) | Giorgio Vasari (21) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (20) | Lower Basilica of San Francesco (17) | Museum of San Marco (16) | San Francesco, Arezzo (14) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (12) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (11) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Capitoline Museums (9) | Santa Maria del Carmine (9) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (9) | Santissima Annunziata (9) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (9) | Antiquarium stabiano (8)

location: Scrovegni Chapel (55) | Sistine Chapel (44) | Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi (44) | Vatican Museums (31) | Giorgio Vasari (19) | Lower Basilica of San Francesco (19) | Museum of San Marco (15) | San Francesco, Arezzo (14) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Capitoline Museums (9) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (8) | Antiquarium stabiano (8) | Naples National Archaeological Museum (7) | None (7) | Niccoline Chapel (6) | Brancacci Chapel (6) | Apostolic Palace (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5)

part of: Sistine Chapel ceiling (28) | Scenes of the life of Sant Francis (28) | Cycle of the Life of the Christ (20) | works by Biagio Bellotti (15) | The History of the True Cross (14) | Prophets and Sibyls (9) | Ancestors of Christ series on Sistine Chapel ceiling (8) | None (7) | Cycle of the Life of Joachim (6) | Pèlerinage au tombeau de sainte Catherine (5) | Paintings of the Months in Palazzo Schifanoia (4) | Stanza di Eliodoro (4) | Frescos of the life of the Virgin (4) | Antonio Gallardo Ballart collection (4) | Scrovegni Chapel (3) | The procession of the Magi (3) | Sistine Chapel (2) | Brancacci Chapel (2)

country of origin: Italy (27) | France (1)

exhibition history: L'Empire de la couleur (21) | Charterhouse of Aula Dei (1) | Brancacci Chapel (1) | Europeana 280 (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (12) | Annunciation (9) | crucifixion of Jesus (5) | Visitation (5) | Nativity of Jesus (4) | Adoration of the Magi (4) | Assumption of Mary (3) | Pentecost (3) | Last Supper (2) | entombment of Christ (2) | Pietà (2) | Jesus among the doctors (2) | flight into Egypt (2) | Cleansing of the Temple (2) | Flagellation of Christ (2) | birth of the Virgin Mary (2) | annunciation of the birth of Mary to Joachim (2) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (2)

location of final assembly: Padua (4) | Scrovegni Chapel (3) | Florence (2) | Pompeii (1) | Charterhouse of Aula Dei (1) | Brancacci Chapel (1) | Salone dei Cinquecento (1) | Cappella di San Brizio (1)

published in: Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (2) | Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (2) | Metropolitan Museum Journal (1) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art guide (1) | Metropolitan Jewelry (1) | Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale: The Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in Reality and Virtual Reality (1) | Church of San Pietro (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (387) | grisaille (2) | Harry Potter (1)