Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Christ Carrying the Cross; Lunette of God the Father
Alternate Title:
Cristo portacroce
Image View:
Detail, God rests his hand on a globe, while a cherub carries a ladder to heaven
Creator:
attributed to Giorgione (Italian painter, 1477-1510); attributed to Titian (Italian painter, ca. 1488-1576)
Location:
repository: Scuola di San Rocco (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:
Campo San Rocco
GPS:
45.4366 12.325
Date:
ca. 1508-1509 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
altarpiece
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
70 cm (height, central panel) x 100 cm (width, central panel)
Subjects:
New Testament; Jesus Christ; Venetian; Passion of Christ; cherubs
Description:
Formerly in the church of San Rocco. In March 1508 the silk merchant Jacopo di Zuanne was permitted by the Scuola di San Rocco to commission an altarpiece for a small chapel dedicated to the Cross in the church of S Rocco (Anderson, 1977). The work is identifiable with the Christ Carrying the Cross, which must, therefore, date from 1508-1509 (1509 being the recorded date of a dedicatory inscription). It is also frequently attributed to Titian, but the evidence both of the sources and of scientific examination tends to support an attribution to Giorgione. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-GIORGIO-CCC-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Christ Carrying the Cross; Lunette of God the Father