Christ the Man of Sorrows between the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist
Technical Details
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Title
Christ the Man of Sorrows between the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist -
Author
Benozzo Gozzoli -
Year
c. 1450 -
Dimensions
cm 29x72 -
Inventory
6101 -
Room
V
The work is an Imago pietatis, with Christ shown dead, standing upright in a pink sarcophagus flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John. The gold background is still used for the haloes, but otherwise, the sky is shown naturalistically. This episode is not present in the Gospels and suggests an image made for meditation, as in the Pietà of Giovanni Bellini in Room 6.
