It is not known from which altarpiece this predella panel comes. The predella is the lower section of an altarpiece & it would have been made up from several panels. Other panels from the same series are ' The Last Supper' (Edinburgh) & ' The Resurrection' (Frick Collection, New York). Two other panels have been discussed in relation to this series: a ' Flagellation' (now in a private collection) & a ' Capture of Christ' (now lost). ...

The figures are, from left to right: Saints Scholastica, Mary Magdalen & Anne, the Virgin, Christ crucified, Saints John the Evangelist, Andrew, Benedict, Agnes. Saint Anne is depicted with the Madonna & Child in her arms, while Saint Andrew carries ...

The central panel shows the Crucifixion, with background scenes relating to the Passion. Left wing: Christ led from the Praetorium. Right wing: Descent from the Cross. The donor in the central panel has been thought to belong to a Charterhouse, St Barthol ...

The Virgin Mary & John the Evangelist are shown on either side of the crucified Christ. On the wings, the donor & donatrix have unidentified coats of arms, partly rubbed out, with the letters 'W B' associated with the donor. In the background of the wings: left, the Way to Calvary, right the Resurrection. The Archangel Gabriel was originally on the reverse of the left wing, & the Virgin Annunciate on the reverse of the right wing. ...

This is one of Guercino's finest late works, imposing in composition, rich in colour & dignified in pose & gesture. It represents one of the twelve pagan sibyls, or seers, who were reputed to have foretold the coming of Christ. The Cumaean Sibyl predicted that Christ would be born of a virgin in a stable at Bethlehem. The inscription refers to the cross on which Christ was crucified. The painting was commissioned in 1651 by Gioseffo Locatelli of Cesena as a companion to the ' King David' now in the Spencer Collection, Althorp, but was bought by Prince Mattias de' Medici. Guercino painted a replacement for Locatelli, the ' Samian Sibyl', which is also in the Spencer Collection. ...

Louis (1729
- 1765), son of Louis XV of France (whom he predeceased) & Marie Leczinska, was the father of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII
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This is one wing of a diptych. The other wing is in the Lehman collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It shows Saint John the Evangelist & presumably the Magdalen. The work is sometimes attributed to Roberto d' Odorisio. The condition of ...

The incident is not described in the Gospels, but the lamentation over the dead Christ had become a traditional subject for depiction; unusually, this picture shows only women mourners. Christ rests on the Virgin's lap. Saint Mary Magdalene is probably th ...

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This panel depicts two events from Christ's Passion, each conceived as a subject of visionary contemplation by a saint. In the left background the Deposition of Christ is paired on the right with Saint Francis’s reception of the stigmata – the marks of the wounds which Christ suffered on the cross. In the foreground, the dead Christ, supported by grieving angels, appears before Saint Jerome who beats his breast with a stone in penitence. The painting originally formed the right hand side of a diptych, bound in violet velvet with The Adoration of the Shepherds at the left. ...