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Giorgio Vasari: Jacob's Dream
Artist	Giorgio Vasari  (1511–1574)       Description Italian painter, architect and historian Date of birth/death 30 July 1511  27 June 1574  Location of birth/death Arezzo Florence Work period 1527 –1574  Work location Florence, Rom, Arezzo Authority file : Q128027 VIAF: 46768219 ISNI: 0000000121309590 ULAN: 500017608 LCCN: n79084160 NLA: 35578126 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q128027
Title	Jacob's Dream
Object type	painting
Genre	religious art
Description	English: As recounted in the Old Testament book of Genesis, on his way to Haran, Jacob lay down in the wilderness to sleep, resting his head on a stone. He dreamed of angels ascending and descending a stairway or ladder to heaven (here depicted as a monumental Renaissance-style staircase). God then appeared and blessed Jacob and his descendants. This large panel, apparently intended for a ceiling, was done by the painter, architect, and author Giorgio Vasari for the Florentine Marsilio degli Albizi in 1558. The figures of God the Father and Jacob are based on famous frescoes by Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Raphael (1483-1520) in the Vatican. Vasari wrote the first history of Italian art, in which he praised these Roman frescoes as the culmination of the art of painting. His references to them in his painting are another form of homage.
Date	between 1557 and 1558 date QS:P571,+1557-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1557-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1558-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 (Renaissance era QS:P2348,Q4692 )
Medium	oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions	Painted surface height: 224.6 cm (88.4 in); width: 237 cm (93.3 in); depth: 3.5 cm (1.3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,224.6U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,237U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,3.5U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	37.2508
Place of creation	Florence, Italy
Object history	Guglielmo del Tovaglia or Marsilio degli Albizi, Florence, 1558 Justice James A. Murnaghan, Dublin, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown] 1973: given to Walters Art Museum
Exhibition history	Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001.
Credit line	Gift of the Dr. Francis D. Murnaghan Fund, 1973
References	Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 215 , pp. 331−333 OCLC: 2463997.
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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