St John the Evangelist Mourning, ca. 1300 – 1310

Dimensions: 54.3 x 43.1 x 1.8 cm

Physical Description: Mixed technique on poplar

Inventory Number: 1887

Acquisition: Acquired in 1934

Status: On display, 2nd upper level, Old Masters, room 12

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This depiction, which looks like a painting in its own right, is only a fragment of a panel cross. The laterally widened stem showed the crucified Christ, while vertical rectangular picture fields at the ends of the crosspiece featured half-length figures of the Virgin and St John. Painted crosses of this kind hung above the rood screen or at the entrance to the choir in large churches. Deodato Orlandi may have painted this one (which, at originally about 5.30 metres, was unusually tall) for San Piero a Grado, near Pisa, for which he also executed an extensive cycle of frescos.

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Kunsthandel Johannes Wolff, Offenbach

verkauft als "Florentiner Meister des 13. Jahrhunderts" an das Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1934.

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