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Plate Depicting Christ’s Passion

Plate Depicting Christ’s Passion

c. 1510
(Italian)
Italy, Florentine region, Cafaggiolo
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Diameter: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.55
Location: 118 Italian Renaissance

Did You Know?

During the Renaissance, scenes from the Christian Bible were prominently featured on maiolica, covering the surface in a style called istoriato (decorated with stories).

Description

The painted scenes on this plate depicting the Passion of Christ include the betrayal of Jesus by his disciple Judas (right); the arrest and condemnation by the Jews (left); the bearing of the cross (top); the Crucifixion (middle); and the resurrection (bottom). At least one of the scenes (the condemnation or the Scourging at the Pillar) is based on a Florentine woodcut from the devotional writings of Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498).
  • until 1942
    Alfred Beit Collection (Sotheby's, London, 16 October 1942, lot #23)
    (F. A. Drey, London)
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    Balniel, Lord, Kenneth Clark, and Ettore Modigliana. Exhibition of Italian Art. A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House. London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Mentioned: p. 315 library.clevelandart.org
    Longhurst, M. H., A. F. Kendrick, Bernard Rackham, and Wilfred Buckley. "The Italian Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 56, no. 322 (June 1930): 9-31. Mentioned: p. 21 864244
    Milliken, William M. "Italian Majolica." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15. Mentioned: p 14; Reproduced p. 11 25141102
    Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971. Mentioned: p. 97 library.clevelandart.org
    Alinari, Alessandro. Il pittore della processione papale: un ceramista toscano del Rinascimento. Firenze : Edizioni Polistampa, 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 41-45.
  • No existing exhibition history
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