The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion
- Artist
- Italian 15th Century
- Artist Dates
- 15th century
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Crucifixion
- Date
- mid to late 15th century
- Medium
- tempera and gold leaf on panel
- Dimensions
- 28.8 x 21.8 cm (11-1/4 x 8-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K1788
- Repository
- Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor
- Accession Number
- A1961.17.5
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 1 July 1950; gift to the Staten Island Museum in 1961, no. A1961.17.5.
Catalogue Entry
Italian 15th Century
The Crucifixion
K1788
Staten Island, N.Y., Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences (61-17.5), since 1961. Wood. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (28.8 x 21.8 cm.). Inscribed at top of cross: INRI (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews). Fair condition: some restoration. The provincial character of K1788, in which echoes of the Veronese, Venetian, and Umbrian masters and even, possibly, the early Filippo Lippi are combined, blurs the identity of the school in which it was produced.(1) The date is probably in the late fifteenth century. The figures at the foot of the cross are easily recognized as the Virgin, John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene, and St. Francis of Assisi. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1950.
References
(1) R. Longhi (in ms. opinion) thinks the work Venetian, c. 1460/70.