Maiolica panel with the Crucifixion, Mancini workshop

An image of Devotional panel. Maiolica panel painted in polychrome with the Crucifixion. Mancini Workshop, pottery, Umbria, Deruta. Mancini, Giacomo, probably (Italian, act.1541-1554). Square with a raised edge and a suspension hole in each corner. The Cross is in the centre, with Mary Magdalene at its foot and the Virgin and St John to the left, surrounded by Roman cavalry and foot soldiers. A soldier on the left holds a shield charged with a scorpion, and another to the right of the Cross holds a scorpion standard. The crosses of the two malefactors are further back. In the sky above them is the sun on the left, and the moon on the right. The raised edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in greyish-black: 'DIRVTI/ISSVI'. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and outside edges; reverse unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, stone, and manganese-purple. Height, whole, 40.0 cm, width, whole, 41.3 cm, depth, whole, 2.5 cm, dated 1556. Renaissance.

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Devotional panel. Maiolica panel painted in polychrome with the Crucifixion. Mancini Workshop, pottery, Umbria, Deruta. Mancini, Giacomo, probably (Italian, act.1541-1554). Square with a raised edge and a suspension hole in each corner. The Cross is in the centre, with Mary Magdalene at its foot and the Virgin and St John to the left, surrounded by Roman cavalry and foot soldiers. A soldier on the left holds a shield charged with a scorpion, and another to the right of the Cross holds a scorpion standard. The crosses of the two malefactors are further back. In the sky above them is the sun on the left, and the moon on the right. The raised edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in greyish-black: 'DIRVTI/ISSVI'. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and outside edges; reverse unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, stone, and manganese-purple. Height, whole, 40.0 cm, width, whole, 41.3 cm, depth, whole, 2.5 cm, dated 1556. Renaissance.

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Accession Number: MAR.C.57-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 867 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.00MB
Exposure time: 1/45
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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