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Source Description
Vasari may have painted this biblical scene as well as three others (Walters 37.1177, 37.1705, 37.1176) in brown monochrome as a study for related compositions in a series of 18 larger, multicolor panels representing the correspondences between the Old and New Testaments made in 1545-1546 for the sacristy of the church of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples. Vasari's skill with the pen comes out in the preliminary drawings, visible in this work, to which he added layers of paint with his brush and fingers.These particular subjects relate to the establishment of the Holy Eucharist (Communion), when the priest at the altar symbolically re-enacts the sacrifice of Christ. In The Fall of Manna, God provides food for the starving Israelites in the desert.
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Document identity
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14223
label
The Fall of Manna
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obj
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drawing
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Source metadata
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14223
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contentType
drawing
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normalized
title
The Fall of Manna
description
Vasari may have painted this biblical scene as well as three others (Walters 37.1177, 37.1705, 37.1176) in brown monochrome as a study for related compositions in a series of 18 larger, multicolor panels representing the correspondences between the Old and New Testaments made in 1545-1546 for the sacristy of the church of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples. Vasari's skill with the pen comes out in the preliminary drawings, visible in this work, to which he added layers of paint with his brush and fingers.These particular subjects relate to the establishment of the Holy Eucharist (Communion), when the priest at the altar symbolically re-enacts the sacrifice of Christ. In The Fall of Manna, God provides food for the starving Israelites in the desert.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 237, as Polidoro da Carabaggio]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1545 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
panel paintings
predellas
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
32.1
height
84.8
depth
0.8
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 12 5/8 x W: 33 3/8 x D excluding cradle: 5/16 in. (32.1 x 84.8 x 0.8 cm)
Source extras
med
oil and tempera on panel
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4865
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REN
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2238
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1
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0
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photo
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