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Description: | Christ is depicted half-length and in profile carrying the cross. Two other figures are present, including a soldier. In the far right background is a glimpse of buildings behind fortifications. The sale of the work in the late 19th / early 20th century as an genuine Lotto coincides with Bernard Berenson's resuscitation of Lotto's reputation. However, the composition and style of the Torre Abbey painting are insufficiently similar to Lotto's Christ Carrying the Cross in the Louvre, Paris, for it to be described as a copy after Lotto. Although the Torre Abbey work has some similar elements to Lotto's paintings, such as the close-up depiction of Christ and the dominant diagonal of the cross, these features are owed to the traditional treatment of this subject. The work was probably produced in seventeenth-century Bologna. The depiction of Christ carrying the cross was a popular subject in devotional paintings made for a domestic setting, and was very frequently employed in Italy as well as northern Europe. | Subjects: | cross) Passion religion (Christ | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian (Bolognese) School Æ Previously attributed to after Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian painter, ca. 1480-1556) Previously attributed to Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian painter, ca. 1480-1556) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8378... | Go to resource |
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