Shop art print and framed art Pietà by Rosso Fiorentino

The Dead Christ, sometimes referred to as the Pietà, is a painting commissioned around 1535 by Anne de Montmorency for his Château d'Écouen from the Mannerist artist Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino. The dead Christ is taken to the tomb by John and Magdalene. The mother of Jesus in Pietà, spreading her arms in the form of a cross, is supported by another female figure. The work was painted in oil on a wooden panel and then transposed to canvas in 1802, measuring 127 × 163 cm. The artist depicted the Savoy family coat of arms on the cushions on which Christ's body rests. These are blue alerions on an orange-yellow background. Rosso Fiorentino arrived in France in 1530, working at Fontainebleau to decorate the castle. Anne de Montmorency commissioned an altarpiece from him for a chapel in his château at Écouen, probably around 1535. It is likely that the initial commission for the altarpiece included a sculpted frame and perhaps a pediment, and the artist died before its [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

« Pietà » is kept at Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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