Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Christ Carrying the Cross [fresco fragment]
Alternate Title:
Cristo portacroce
Image View:
Overall view of the detached wall fresco fragment
Creator:
Fra Bartolommeo (Italian painter, 1472-1517)
Location:
repository: Museo di San Marco (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Convent of San Marco, Lavabo Room
GPS:
43.778198 11.259329
Date:
ca. 1511 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster, detached from wall
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
New Testament; Jesus Christ
Description:
Fra Bartolommeo painted this version in fresco at the Dominican convent of La Maddalena at Le Caldine (Pian di Mugnone); it was detached in 1959 and badly damaged. There are eight heads (seven saints and a bust of Christ) painted in fresco on terracotta tile that are also from La Maddelena and now in the Museo di San Marco, thought to have been painted by Fra Bartolommeo and his pupils. (Source: Cavallini to Veronese [website]; http://cavallinitove ronese.co.uk/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-FB-CSM-CCC-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Christ Carrying the Cross [fresco fragment]