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| Deposition from the Cross |
| Fra Angelico, 1432-1434 |
| Tempera on panel |
| 176 × 185 cm |
| National Museum of San Marco, Florence |
The Deposition from the Cross is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico, executed between 1432 and 1434. Fra Angelico (c 1395 &ndash February 18 1455) born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter referred to in Vasari San Marco is the name of religious complex in Florence, Italy. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Fra Angelico (c 1395 &ndash February 18 1455) born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter referred to in Vasari It is now housed in the National Museum of San Marco, Florence. San Marco is the name of religious complex in Florence, Italy.
Giorgio Vasari defined it to have been “painted by a saint or an angel”. Giorgio Vasari ( 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter and Architect, who is today famous
Angelico intervened to complete this altarpiece when it had been already begun by Lorenzo Monaco for the Strozzi Chapel in the Florentine church of Santa Trinita. Lorenzo Monaco (born Piero di Giovanni c 1370-1425 was a Florentine painter. The church of Santa Trinita ("Holy Trinity" is a church in central Florence, Italy. It portrays Christ supported by several people, with Mary Magdalene keeping his feet, as a symbol of human repention. Saint Mary Magdalen or Mary Magdalene is described both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted A figure on the right, with a red hat, is showing the cross' nails and the horns crown, symbols of passion and sacrifice.
Mary, wearing a dark dress, is showed in the traditional gesture of keeping hands joined.
External links
- San Marco Museum (Italian)Template:Infobox Paintings by Fra Angelico
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