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The Crucifixion
Mancini Workshop
(Pottery)
Probably
Mancini, Giacomo
(Painter)
Maiolica panel painted in polychrome with the Crucifixion.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and outside edges; reverse unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, stone, and manganese-purple. Square with a raised edge and a suspension hole in each corner.
The Crucifixion. 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'.
History note: Unknown before testator, Charles Brinsley Marley (1831-1912)
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Depth: 2.5 cm
Height: 40 cm
Width: 41.3 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Third quarter of 16th century
Renaissance
Production date:
dated
AD/CE 1556
: the inscription in a mixture of arabic and Roman numerals appears to be 1556
Label text from the exhibition ‘Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 7 March until 4 June 2017: In this brightly coloured panel figures crowd in, horses stamp their hooves and draperies swirl. At the centre, Christ is still and calm despite his sufferings. One cavalryman holds a flag with a scorpion, a symbol of Judas’s terrible betrayal of Christ. The piece was pierced prior to firing, which indicates that it was designed to be hung on a wall.
Decoration: composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, stone, and manganese-purple) tin-glaze Suspension Holes:
Accession number: MAR.C.57-1912
Primary reference Number: 48588
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Accession Number: PD.8-1955
Accession Number: 558
Accession Number: PD.77-1972
Accession Number: 564
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