Tornabuoni Chapel - Central Wall

Central Wall

On the middle wall are portrayed the following scenes:

  • Coronation of the Virgin and Saints' (lunette)
  • St. Dominic Tests Books in the Fire (#1 in violet - see figure)
  • Killing of St. Peter Martyr (#2 in violet - see figure)
  • Annunciation (#5 in green - see figure)
  • St. John in the Desert (#5 in red - see figure). This painting depicts John wandering in the desert during his youth.
  • The Patrons in Prayer (#3 and #4 in violet). These are the portraits of the two patrons, Giovanni Tornabuoni and his wife Francesca Pitti.

Read more about this topic:  Tornabuoni Chapel

Famous quotes containing the words central and/or wall:

    There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.
    Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.
    John Berger (b. 1926)