Crucifixion and Lamentation, about 1335

Artwork: Crucifixion and Lamentation

Artist: Taddeo Gaddi (b. ca. 1290-1366)

Created: 1335

Medium and Support: Tempera and gilding on panel

Dimensions: H 52.4 x W 26.7 cm

Location: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

Photography by LillynisthArtist’s

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“This small panel was probably made for private devotion. In the upper portion appears the Crucifixion, with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene. Over the crucifix is set a pelican, symbolic of Christ’s sacrifice. In the lower portion is a lamentation over the body of Christ. Taddeo Gaddi was a pupil and collaborator of Giotto and one of the most influential painters of fourteenth-century Florence.

The composition has been described as an adaptation of the Crucifixion which appears in the right side of his 1334 triptych in Berlin.”

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