Ugolino-Lorenzetti

Calvary

Calvary
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Author: Ugolino-Lorenzetti
Painting, Tempera on panel, 91.5x55.5 cm
Origin: Italy, 14th century

Ugolino-Lorenzetti is a name invented to cover a group of stylistically similar works, which are marked by a more gentle Byzantine style. The artist used the traditional gold background and "reverse perspective", by which the figures present at Christ's execution are portrayed as a single mass extending vertically, their heads one above the other. At the same time he sought to convey the depth of space by showing the figures at the foot of the cross just half the size of those in the foreground. In the left group we can identify the Virgin Mary, falling senseless into the hands of Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist. To the right is the Roman centurion, who came to believe in Christ. In the elongated proportions of the figures, in the artist's attempt to convey the emotional state of his characters, one can feel the influence of Gothic art.

Personage: Christ
Source of entry: Collection of Prince A.G. Gagarin, Petrograd, 1919
School: Sienese
Theme: The Bible and Christianity



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