Tag: pieta
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The Paxes and Reliefs of Antonio Gentili da Faenza
An examination of Antonio Gentili’s reworking of Guglielmo della Porta’s models and proposed attributions for several reliefs and paxes.
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A Renowned Pieta by Jacob Cornelis Cobaert
The most popular devotional image of Christ, ca. 1600, here attributed to Jacob Cornelis Cobaert after a design by Guglielmo della Porta.
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Gothic German Influences on Two Lombard Paxes, ca. 1500
Examining two rare Lombard paxes inspired by German designs or borrowed from reliefs of German origin.
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Michelangelo’s Pieta in Bronze
A popular pax after Michelangelo’s Pieta for Vittoria Colonna and a Deposition pax are here suggested as the product of Ludovico and/or Jacopo del Duca while a later variant of Michelangelo’s Pieta, formed as a pax, is given to a Venetian workshop active in the first part of the 17th century.
Renaissance Bronze 