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Date : approx. between 1530 and 1534
Sizes : 59 cm x 75 cm
Material : Oil on walnut
Acquisition : Bought with a grant from the National Art Collections Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation) and donations from the George Beaumont Group (2003)
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Italian Painting
Painting
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Italy
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This is a preparatory oil sketch for the monumental altarpiece Polidoro painted for the Catalan church in Messina, Sicily. Christ, who is on his way to Calvary to be crucified, has fallen to his knees. While one soldier torments him, another tugs at the coarse rope around his neck. Behind, the Virgin has fainted. This is one of the earliest known oil sketches.
The altarpiece was completed before 1534.
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