Object Description
380 PIETA WITH ANGELS, ca. 1600
In a landscape, Mary sits under the cross holding before her Christ's body, which lies on a cloth held by two angels.
A. Bronze, cast from a reworked model, 80 x 58 mm. Cut at left.
1967.32.2
B. Bronze, silvered, reworked, 81 x 64 mm. Edges damaged, traces of fastenings on the reverse.
1967.20.51
Bange and Frederiks {Dutch Silver I. The Hague, 1952, no. 117d) compare this lamentation to the series of passion scenes by Arent van Bolten (see no. 397). Composition is based on an Italian model and exists in several variations. The model could either belong to the circle of or, better, to a follower of the Abondio workshop.
Other specimens: (lead) Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum; (bronze) Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery; Basel, Historisches Museum; Berlin, Staatliche Museen; Rome, Palazzo Venezia; (silver) Brescia, Museo Civico.
Bibl.: Rizzini, Illustrazione dei civici di Brescia, Brescia 1889, no. 257; Bange, D.M., p. 132, no. 5955, pl. 30; Weber, no. 658.