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DEPOSITION OF JESUS 'BY THE CROSS by Santi Buglioni (last representative of a rival family of Della Robbia.) chapel of pity (entrance to the corridor of the stigmata) Donated by the Earl of Montedoglio (Arezzo-Anghiari) Size: height m. 2.87; width m. 2,10 The Virgin in the center, cradling the lifeless body of the Divine Son. Left S. John holds the head of the Redeemer, Mary Magdalene kneeling on the right. Standing, from left: St. Francis, the Angel Michael St. Anthony of Padua St. Jerome in the act of beating his chest with a stone. Above the arms of the cross the sun and the moon. The base bears the sides, the arms of the Counts Montedoglio and three panels depicting the Annunciation, the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi. The panel frame is a garland of leaves and fruit. |
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