Deposition (after Rosso Fiorentino)
30.7 x 27 cm
size in frame: 39.1 x 30.6 x 3.2 cm
Two-tone frame hand-made and painted by me in my Norfolk studio
This is an oil sketch copy of a work by Italian painter Rosso Fiorentino (1495 - 1540). The Deposition from the Cross is considered to be the artist’s masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood, the painting was previously located in the Duomo of Volterra, but has been moved to the town art gallery, Pinacoteca Comunale. It is often being compared to the fellow mannerist painter Pontormo’s near contemporary (1528) treatment of the same subject in Florence (Capponi chapel). Unlike Pontormo’s brightly coloured collection of billowing figures, Fiorentino depicted his characters within a geometric composition and a sombre landscape, and with faces more struck with grief, which creates an overall effect of more violent suffering.
In my work, I regularly return to images of the Deposition, in particular those painted around this period, in the early stages of a project, whatever medium that project might be in. This oil sketch was made when I was in the research phase of my current project Miniature.
30.7 x 27 cm
size in frame: 39.1 x 30.6 x 3.2 cm
Two-tone frame hand-made and painted by me in my Norfolk studio
This is an oil sketch copy of a work by Italian painter Rosso Fiorentino (1495 - 1540). The Deposition from the Cross is considered to be the artist’s masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood, the painting was previously located in the Duomo of Volterra, but has been moved to the town art gallery, Pinacoteca Comunale. It is often being compared to the fellow mannerist painter Pontormo’s near contemporary (1528) treatment of the same subject in Florence (Capponi chapel). Unlike Pontormo’s brightly coloured collection of billowing figures, Fiorentino depicted his characters within a geometric composition and a sombre landscape, and with faces more struck with grief, which creates an overall effect of more violent suffering.
In my work, I regularly return to images of the Deposition, in particular those painted around this period, in the early stages of a project, whatever medium that project might be in. This oil sketch was made when I was in the research phase of my current project Miniature.
30.7 x 27 cm
size in frame: 39.1 x 30.6 x 3.2 cm
Two-tone frame hand-made and painted by me in my Norfolk studio
This is an oil sketch copy of a work by Italian painter Rosso Fiorentino (1495 - 1540). The Deposition from the Cross is considered to be the artist’s masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood, the painting was previously located in the Duomo of Volterra, but has been moved to the town art gallery, Pinacoteca Comunale. It is often being compared to the fellow mannerist painter Pontormo’s near contemporary (1528) treatment of the same subject in Florence (Capponi chapel). Unlike Pontormo’s brightly coloured collection of billowing figures, Fiorentino depicted his characters within a geometric composition and a sombre landscape, and with faces more struck with grief, which creates an overall effect of more violent suffering.
In my work, I regularly return to images of the Deposition, in particular those painted around this period, in the early stages of a project, whatever medium that project might be in. This oil sketch was made when I was in the research phase of my current project Miniature.
