Pisa polyptych crucifixion masaccio biography wikipedia

For the first time for hundreds of years, it will be possible to see this celebrated but broken-boned masterpiece of Italian Renaissance art in a condition approaching that intended by its creator.

Masaccio early life

The National Gallery owns the large central panel of the Virgin and Child; three small predella panels will be arriving in London from the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin; the Crucifixion will come from the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples; while other surviving bits and pieces will be travelling variously from Berlin, Pisa and Malibu.

Considerable losses to the middle tier mean that the original effect of the altarpiece as a whole can still only be imagined. But it is possible to reconstruct its principal vertical axis, as shown here, with The Virgin and Child Enthroned at the centre, above the small predella panel of the Magi , and crowned by the Crucifixion. This group is in turn surmounted by Christ on the cross, all the pain of whose impassive suffering seems To read the full article please either login or register.

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