Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Passion Narrative - Sixteenth-Century Imagery

Antonio Campi
The Flagellation
before 1587
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Alessandro Fei (il Barbiere)
The Flagellation
ca. 1575
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Hieronymus Bosch
The Crowning with Thorns
ca. 1510
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Annibale Carracci
Christ crowned with Thorns
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna

Frei Carlos de Lisboa
Ecce Homo
ca. 1520-30
oil on panel
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
Ecce Homo
ca. 1525-30
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Anonymous Venetian Artist
Christ carrying the Cross
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Anonymous Cremonese Artist
Christ carrying the Cross
ca. 1510-15
oil on canvas
Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara

Anonymous Lombard Artist
Christ carrying the Cross
16th century
oil on canvas
Abbazia di Pontida

Lelio Orsi
Christ surrounded by Crosses
(image from Thomas à Kempis)
ca. 1570
drawing
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Fermo Guisoni
Christ on the Cross
ca. 1565
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Ercole Procaccini the Elder
The Crucifixion
before 1595
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giuseppe Porta (Giuseppe Salviati)
Descent from the Cross
before 1575
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Bartolomeo Neroni (il Riccio)
Dead Christ
1550
oil on panel
Museo d'Arte Sacra della Diocesi di Grosseto

Giorgio da Siena (Giorgio di Giovanni)
Dead Christ supported by Angels
ca. 1525-27
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena

Lelio Orsi
Christ's Descent into Limbo
ca. 1565-70
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Vision

I have not walked on common ground,
Nor drunk of earthly streams;
A shining figure, mailed and crowned,
Moves softly through my dreams.

He makes the air so keen and strange,
The stars so fiercely bright;
The rocks of time, the tides of change,
Are nothing in his sight.

Death lays no shadow on his smile;
Life is a race fore-run;
Look on his face a little while,
And life and death are one.

– Marjorie Pickthall (ca. 1920)