Deposition of Christ, 1432-1434 (tempera on panel)

Deposition of Christ (Deposizione), by Fra Angelico, 1431-1434, 15th Century, tempera on board, 176x185cm Whole artwork view. The work is an altarpiece commissioned for the Strozzi Chapel; in the middle of the stage there is the scene of Deposition organized with a pyramid scheme that has as vertices the two mourners kneeling and the group of saints on the stairs leaning against the cross; at the sides there are the pious women on the left and a group of men on the right; on the background a fortified city on the left and a hilly landscape on the right; the work is characterized by clear, bright and shiny colours Beato Angelico Museum of San Marco