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Giorgio Vasari: The Fall of Manna   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Giorgio Vasari  (1511–1574)  wikidata:Q128027 s:en:Author:Giorgio Vasari q:en:Giorgio Vasari
 
Giorgio Vasari
Description Italian painter, architect and historian
Date of birth/death 30 July 1511 Edit this at Wikidata 27 June 1574 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Arezzo Florence
Work period 1527 Edit this at Wikidata–1574 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Florence, Rom, Arezzo
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q128027
Title
The Fall of Manna
Description
English: 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 The Fall of Manna, 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. The Last Supper depicts the institution of the Holy Eucharist by Christ when he offers bread and wine to his disciples, describing their symbolic significance as his body and blood, which he offers for their salvation.

The three episodes from Genesis and Exodus foreshadow Christ's sacrifice or the role of bread as sustenance and as an offering. In The Sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham is ordered by God to sacrifice his son Isaac and is then prevented from doing so by an angel. In The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, Abraham returns from battle having freed his brother from the enemy and is met by the high priest Melchizedek, who offers him bread and wine. In The Fall of Manna, God provides food for the starving Israelites in the desert.
Date circa 1545
date QS:P571,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(Renaissance
era QS:P2348,Q4692
)
Medium oil and tempera on panel
Dimensions 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)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1704
Place of creation Florence, Italy
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
References Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 216a-d , pp. 333−335 OCLC: 2463997.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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