Lamentation over the Dead Christ

1572 · Private collection

religious

This painting is a modello (a study) for Poppi's signed altarpiece for the Grifoni chapel in the church of SS. Jacopo e Lucia (called church of San Domenico) in San Miniato al Tedesco, near Pisa.

About the Artist

Francesco Poppi

1544 – 1597

Italian painter, originally Francesco Morandini da Poppi. He went to Florence at an early age and became a protégé of Vincenzo Borghini. He was trained by Giorgio Vasari, whose team of artists he joined in the work of remodelling the Palazzo Vecchio for Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, later Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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