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Description: | 'Iconographically this work derives from an early fifteenth century Crucifixion panel in the Opera del Duomo, Siena (Brandi, C., Giovanni di Paolo, 1947, fig. 11), attributed to the Maestro della Vita di Maria. The Duomo panel portrays in addition the two thieves and soldiers on horseback, giving a crowded impression typical of late Trecento Sienese Crucifixion scenes, whereas the figures in the present panel are aligned in a frieze arrangement against a wide expanse of gold ground. Several of the male figures in the Duomo Crucifixion are used again by Giovanni di Paolo in a Crucifixion predella panel now in the Accademia, Siena (Brandi, fig. 18). The closest parallel for the Rochdale figure groups, however, is to be found in another Crucifixion predella scene by Giovanni in the Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, which includes the long-haired bulky figure in the turban, omitted in the Duomo and Accademia panels. Giovanni's style is traditionally characterised by nervous draughtsmanship, elongated figures, violent colours and an imaginative interpretation of reality. The format of his works changed from the early period, of which this panel is an example, to much harsher forms.' | Subjects: | religion (the Crucifixion) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Giovanni di Paolo (Italian painter, illuminator, active ca. 1420, died 1482) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8374... | Go to resource |
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