Christ Bearing the Cross

religious

The subject of Christ carrying the cross along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha is the most frequent in Frangipane's known works. There are nine surviving versions which display some compositional variations, as in two the figures are represented full-length while in the remaining paintings Christ is depicted half-length accompanied by some figures, such as executioners, Mary Magdalene or St Veronica. This canvas is one of the few signed and dated paintings by Niccol Frangipane.

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About the Artist

Niccolò Frangipane

Italian painter. Little documentary evidence survives concerning the life of Niccolò Frangipane, who is recorded as working in Venice and the Marches during the second half of the 16th century. His oeuvre consists principally of three types of painting: religious works, many of which draw heavily from Titian 's production of the 1540s and 1550s; arcadian figures, in the style of Giorgione; and light-hearted mythological or genre scenes, reminiscent of the work of Vincenzo Campi.

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