material used: fresco / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Agostino Chigi (2) | House of Medici (1)

owned by: Padua (1)

movement: High Renaissance (47) | Italian Renaissance (22) | Early Renaissance (17) | Proto-Renaissance (10) | Romanesque art (4) | Venetian school (3) | Roman art (2) | rococo (1) | mannerism (1)

genre: religious art (123) | mythological painting (10) | portrait (7) | landscape art (3) | nude (2) | self-portrait (2) | history painting (2) | religious text (1) | silent film (1) | sculptural group (1)

based on: Annunciation (3) | Book of Genesis (1) | I Trionfi (1) | Madonna and Child (1)

artist: Michelangelo (30) | Giorgio Vasari (23) | anonymous (20) | Fra Angelico (18) | Piero della Francesca (15) | Pietro Lorenzetti (13) | Bernardino Luini (11) | Giotto di Bondone (10) | Raphael (9) | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (7) | Parmigianino (4) | Andrea del Castagno (4) | Pinturicchio (3) | Andrea Mantegna (3) | Paolo Veronese (3) | Titian (3) | Domenico Ghirlandaio (3) | Pontormo (3)

part of the series: Ancestors of Christ (8) | The procession of the Magi (1)

depicts: man (29) | Jesus Christ (27) | woman (24) | Virgin Mary (22) | boy (8) | Peter (7) | Child Jesus (7) | aureola (5) | horse (4) | Saint Dominic (4) | Annunciation (4) | Stephen (4) | long hair (3) | David (3) | Mary Magdalena (3) | Saint Christopher (3) | angel (3) | Visitation (3)

collection: Vatican Museums (23) | Giorgio Vasari (21) | Sistine Chapel (17) | Lower Basilica of San Francesco (16) | San Francesco, Arezzo (12) | Museum of San Marco (11) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Capitoline Museums (9) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (6) | Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi (6) | Santissima Annunziata (6) | Niccoline Chapel (5) | Santa Maria del Carmine (5) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (5) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (4) | San Giovanni Evangelista (4) | Apostolic Palace (3)

location: Sistine Chapel (20) | Vatican Museums (20) | Giorgio Vasari (19) | Lower Basilica of San Francesco (15) | San Francesco, Arezzo (12) | National Gallery of Art (9) | Capitoline Museums (9) | Museum of San Marco (9) | Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | Niccoline Chapel (5) | Palazzo Vecchio (4) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (4) | Santa Maria del Carmine (4) | San Giovanni Evangelista (4) | Getty Villa (3) | Cleveland Museum of Art (3) | Santissima Annunziata (3)

part of: Sistine Chapel ceiling (18) | The History of the True Cross (12) | Ancestors of Christ series on Sistine Chapel ceiling (8) | None (4) | Antonio Gallardo Ballart collection (4) | Prophets and Sibyls (3) | The procession of the Magi (3) | The Loves of the Gods (2) | Paintings of the Months in Palazzo Schifanoia (1) | Scrovegni Chapel (1) | Lower Basilica of San Francesco (1) | groupe d'objets à Kientzheim (1) | Collection of Self-Portraits in the Uffizi Gallery (1)

country of origin: Italy (20) | France (1)

main subject: Annunciation (6) | crucifixion of Jesus (5) | Visitation (3) | Last Supper (2) | entombment of Christ (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | Jesus Christ (1) | Peter (1) | Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1) | resurrection of Jesus (1) | arrest of Jesus (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | Pietà (1) | Salome (1) | Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1) | Alessandro de' Medici (1) | Coronation of the Virgin (1) | Our Lady of Sorrows (1)

location of final assembly: Padua (1) | Florence (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 (39)