ID: 700008554 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008554	Record Type: Movable Work
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Asciano Altarpiece (disassembled work; Matteo di Giovanni (Italian painter, ca. 1430-1495, active i...; probably 1474)

Note: Large altarpiece by Matteo di Giovanni, formerly in Asciano. An example of reconstruction is by Rachel Billinge. Likely extant panels are now in National Gallery London, Siena, Asciano, Villa I Tatti, Esztergom, Altenburg, Rhode Island, and Private Collections. Matteo di Giovanni’s ‘Assumption’ in the National Gallery, London, is one of the greatest surviving Sienese paintings of the Renaissance. In the nineteenth century, the altarpiece to which it belonged was broken up, and the individual paintings which survived entered collections across Europe and America. The Billinge suggested reconstruction is based on research carried out at the National Gallery, London, in connection with the 2007 exhibition Renaissance Siena: Art for a City, and by Dóra Sallay, Head of the Department of Old Master Paintings at the Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest.

Titles:

Asciano Altarpiece (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: items

Work Types:

disassembled work [300404028] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by state>)

altarpiece [300075940]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, religious visual works)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: probably 1474

Creator Display:

Matteo di Giovanni (Italian painter, ca. 1430-1495, active in Siena) [preferred,VP]

painter Matteo di Giovanni (Italian painter, ca. 1430-1495, active in Siena) [500025991]

Locations:

Other: Original: Asciano [7006333] Siena province (province), Tuscany (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: tempera and gold on wood

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	wood (plant material) [300011914]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)

Dimensions: unavailable

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Assumption, The [901001007]
	.....((Life of the Virgin Mary, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	architectural context is .... Sant'Agostino [700008932]
	..........church (building); architect unknown; 13th century, with later modif...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Asciano Altarpiece	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/meaning-of-making/matteo-di-giovanni-lost-altarpiece-for-sant-agostino-asciano