God the Father with Four Angels and the Dove of the Holy Spirit
Giovanni Francesco da Rimini
European Art
The artist, born and trained in Padua, reveals his Northern Italian origin in his intensely linear style, focused in particular on the decorative qualities of God’s curling hair and beard. This circular panel, or tondo, was part of a larger multi-panel work, and was most likely placed above an Annunciation, the scene representing the Virgin at the moment the angel Gabriel announces that she will conceive. Here, God the Father releases the dove of the Holy Spirit, often depicted above Annunciations. The panel shows the characteristic fifteenth-century tension between the traditional flat gold ground, against which figures are compressed, and the three-dimensional space suggested by the flying dove, which is rendered in perfect perspective.
MEDIUM
Tempera and gold on panel
DATES
ca. 1460
DIMENSIONS
18 1/4 in. (46.4 cm)
frame: 23 x 23 x 3 in. (58.4 x 58.4 x 7.6 cm)
wallmount (5 sided plexi vitrine. 3/4" panel backing): 34 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (87.6 x 87.6 x 18.4 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
34.835
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mary Babbott Ladd, Lydia Babbott Stokes, and Frank L. Babbott, Jr. in memory of their father Frank L. Babbott
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Giovanni Francesco da Rimini (Italian, ca. 1420â1470). God the Father with Four Angels and the Dove of the Holy Spirit, ca. 1460. Tempera and gold on panel, 18 1/4 in. (46.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mary Babbott Ladd, Lydia Babbott Stokes, and Frank L. Babbott, Jr. in memory of their father Frank L. Babbott, 34.835 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 34.835_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 34.835_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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