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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Deposition from the Cross
Alternate Title:
Pala di Santa Trinità
Image View:
Detail, Mary Magdalene kisses Christ's feet while the Virgin Mary watches
Creator:
Lorenzo Monaco (Italian painter, ca. 1370-1425); workshop of Fra Angelico (Italian painter, ca. 1400-1455)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco, Pilgrim Room
GPS:
43.778198 11.259329
Date:
ca. 1430-1440 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
275 cm (height, with frame) x 285 cm (width, with frame)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Jesus Christ; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; crucifixion
Description:
Palla Strozzi is known to have commissioned Fra Angelico to paint the Deposition, to hang in the sacristy of Santa Trìnita, Florence. The Deposition, which was not an altarpiece, had been left unfinished at Lorenzo Monaco’s death, ca. 1425. The frame dates to that period and the three scenes in the gables and the three predella panels are by Lorenzo. Fra Angelico’s shop executed the 12 standing figures on the pilasters and the Deposition, with its sublime landscape, in the main panel, but there is no consensus among scholars as to when the work was undertaken. In Fra Angelico’s surviving large-scale work nothing resembles the vast landscape, whose vistas extend into distant invisibility. The groups of women to the left of center and men to the right were undoubtedly designed by Fra Angelico, although probably executed by others. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-FA-CSM-DC-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Deposition from the Cross