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The Crucifixion and Lamentation

Barna da Siena (active c.1330–1350)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Crucifixion and Lamentation

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The right-hand part of a diptych, this panel once had as its companion an 'Annunciation with a Donor, and six Saints below' (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). It is very rare to find the subjects of the Crucifixion and Lamentation depicted in one scene, which makes for a highly charged devotional image. Christ on the Cross is flanked, unusually, by St Peter and St John the Evangelist and the body of Christ is mourned by women, with the Virgin Mary at his head and Mary Magdalen at his feet. This painting is one of a group of panel paintings by the hand of an artist traditionally known as 'Barna da Siena'; this master was a close follower of the great Sienese artist Simone Martini (c.1284–1344) and is sometimes thought to be Lippo Memmi or his brother Federico.

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Title

The Crucifixion and Lamentation

Medium

tempera & gilding on panel

Measurements

H 53 x W 38 cm

Accession number

WA1850.9

Acquisition method

Fox-Strangways Gift, 1850

Work type

Painting

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Barna da Siena

active c.1330–1350

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