Crucifix with Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist
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When Monsignor Mario Aligieri Colonna died in 1555, his brother Fabrizio erected a grandiose tomb in his honor in the family chapel (Cappella di Sant'Antonio) in the Cathedral of Rieti and had a large wood crucifix, draped in a black cloth, placed in the chapel. This is presumably the crucifix that was mentioned in this chapel in a 1573 apostolic vistation document and is presumably the crucifix still in this chapel, now known as the Cappella del Crocifisso, today. The style of the crucifix suggests that it was made earlier and then moved to this chapel, perhaps in late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. The flanking figures of the mourning Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist are not mentioned in the sixteenth century documents and look stylistically much later, probably added in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Such devotional imagery is hard to date using style, as new objects often mimic older ones. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Cappella di Sant'Antonio o del Crocifisso, Cathedral, Rieti
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https://cattedrale.chiesadirieti.it/arte-e-storia/la-cappella-del-ss-mo-crocifisso/; church signage