Francesco Marmitta
The Flagellation of Christ with Saints Jerome and Benedict
About this artwork
The flagelation g of Christ takes place on a raised platform decorated with low reliefs, while in the lower corners the two saints contemplate the gruesome scene. Saint Jerome, accompanied by his lion, grips the stone with which he beat his breast in penitence. The thorny branches silhouetted against Saint Benedict allude to the legend that as a young man he rolled naked in a bed of thorns to rid himself of lascivious thoughts.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Francesco Marmitta (about 1460 - about 1505) Italian
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title:The Flagellation of Christ with Saints Jerome and Benedict
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Panel
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measurements:35.80 x 25.00 cm; Framed: 55.70 x 46.50 x 8.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1927
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accession number:NG 1673
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Francesco Marmitta
Francesco Marmitta
Marmitta was a manuscript illuminator, painter and gem engraver active in Parma in northern Italy. Very little is known about his life and career. The only certain works by him to have been identified are the miniatures in a Petrarch manuscript in the state library in Kassel, the distinctive,...