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Plate Depicting Christ’s Passion

c. 1510

attributed to Painter of the Royal Procession

(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

Fun Fact

During the Renaissance, scenes from the Christian Bible were prominently featured on maiolica, covering the surface in a style called<em> istoriato</em> (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).

Provenance
until 1942
Alfred Beit Collection (Sotheby's, London, 16 October 1942, lot #23)
(F. A. Drey, London)
Citations
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 www.jstor.org
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 www.jstor.org
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.
Exhibition history

No existing exhibition history

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.55