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THE CRUCIFICTION OF JESUS, Andrea Della Robbia. Chapel of the stigmata, main altar Donated by the Alessandri family Florence. Size: height m. 5.65; width m. 4,20 It consists of 720 pieces. At the center Jesus on the cross, under which there is a skull to signify the victory over death by the Redeemer. At the bottom, left, S. Francis kneeling and the Virgin in feet, in an attitude of pain prayer. On the other side you see St. John the Evangelist and St. Jerome, kneeling, beat his chest with a stone; Eight angels, four on each side at the sides of the cross. On the side arms of the cross we see the sun and the moon weeping, upon the cross a pelican that sven to feed their young, a symbol of the Redeemer for the salvation of humanity has shed his Blood. At the foot of the cross reads: "O vos omnes, transitis here for viam, et videre wait, the east dolor sicut dolor meus." At the end of the written it is the coat of the Alessandri family. The table is contained within two frames: the inside is adorned with 23 heads of seraphim, and the outer is made of beautiful festoons of flowers, leaves and fruit. At the top of the frame depicts the Holy Spirit. |
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