Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Familiesca. 1449
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) painted this in about 1449, aged about 38. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) painted this in about 1449, aged about 38. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Tempera
- Pigment bound with egg yolk. It dries in minutes and can’t be blended wet, so painters built up form with fine, hatched strokes. It was Europe’s main panel technique before oil.
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)
Italian, 1406–1486 · Born in San Giovanni Valdarno; died in Florence.
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Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1995.7
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Paintings
- Department
- European Paintings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
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