print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1850,1014.1028.6
- Description
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Illustration of a detail from Giotto's "The Marriage of the Virgin" fresco in the Arena Chapel, Padua, showing a priest joining the hands of the Virgin and Joseph, with a dove above them; page five of Maria Callcott's "Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell'Arena; or, Giotto's Chapel in Padua" (London, Printed for the author, by Thomas Brettell: 1835)
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1835 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres (image)
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Width: 130 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For all the illustrations see 1850,1014.1028.1-13
For more information about the history and context of the "Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell'Arena; or, Giotto's Chapel in Padua", see the curatorial comment to 1850,1014.1028.1.
The physiognomies of the three figures Callcott selected to represent from this fresco - Mary, Joseph and the Priest - are again those of a nineteenth-century artist rather than of the Trecento, and he also omitted the flowering rod in Joseph's left hand that is present in the original fresco.
Literature:
Carly Collier, 'British Artists and Early Italian Art, c. 1770-1845', unpublished Ph.D thesis, University of Warwick 2013 (Chapter 7).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell'Arena; or, Giotto's Chapel in Padua
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,1014.1028.6
