Deposition of Christ (Fra Angelico)

Deposition of Christ (Fra Angelico)
Deposition from the Cross
Artist Fra Angelico
Year 1432-1434
Type Tempera on panel
Dimensions 176 cm × 185 cm (69 in × 73 in)
Location National Museum of San Marco, Florence

The Deposition from the Cross is a painting of the Deposition of Christ by the Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico, executed between 1432 and 1434. It is now housed in the National Museum of San Marco, Florence.

Giorgio Vasari defined it to have been “painted by a saint or an angel”.

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. It portrays Christ supported by several people, with Mary Magdalene keeping his feet, as a symbol of human repention. 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.

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Fiesole Altarpiece (1424-1425) · San Pietro Martire Triptych (1428-1429) · Annunciation (c. 1430) · Annunciation (1430-1432) · Tabernacle of the Linaioli (1433-1435) · Coronation of the Virgin (1434-1435) · Annunciation (before 1435) · Cortona Triptych (1436-1437) · Perugia Altarpiece (c. 1437) · San Marco Altarpiece (1438-1443) · Frescoes in the Niccoline Chapel (1447–1449) · The Last Judgment (1425-1430)

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