This is an icon of Christ in the Tomb, executed in tempera on panel and belonging to the Veneto-Cretan school of the late fifteenth century. The half-length figure of Christ is shown frontally against a gold background, before the Cross and above the sarcophagus, with his head bowed, eyes closed, arms crossed, and the marks […]
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The panel depicts the Virgin and Child in the iconographic type of the Madonna lactans. The composition is intimate and concentrated: the figures occupy almost the entire pictorial space, while the neutral golden-grey background, with a soft radiance around Mary’s head, emphasises the prayerful, otherworldly character of the image. The Virgin is shown wearing a […]
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This Madonna with a Child and Angels is one of the works of the famous Florentine painter Neri di Bicci, Francesco Botticini’s teacher and the last representative of artistic dynasty that took its beginning in the second half of XIV century from Lorenzo di Bicci, who was Neri di Bicci’s grandfather. This painting refers to […]
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