Lorenzo d'Alessandro da San Severino (Italian, School of the Marches, documented 1462–1503). Christ on the Cross Adored by Saints Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena (Recto); Saint Dominic with Saints and Worshipping Nuns (Verso), ca. 1490. Tempera on two panels, 17 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (43.5 x 32.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in memory of her husband, 41.894a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.894_side1_SL1.jpg)
Lorenzo d'Alessandro da San Severino (Italian, School of the Marches, documented 1462–1503). Christ on the Cross Adored by Saints Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena (Recto); Saint Dominic with Saints and Worshipping Nuns (Verso), ca. 1490. Tempera on two panels, 17 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (43.5 x 32.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in memory of her husband, 41.894a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.894_side2_SL1.jpg)
Christ on the Cross Adored by Saints Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena (Recto); Saint Dominic with Saints and Worshipping Nuns (Verso)
Lorenzo d'Alessandro da San Severino
European Art
This is a typical example of the two-sided panels carried in fifteenth-century religious processions. Such objects were regularly handled and exposed to the elements. On one side, the theologian Thomas Aquinas and the mystic Catherine of Siena, who holds the heart that Christ gave to her, flank the Crucified Christ. On the reverse, Saint Dominic holds a stem of lilies and spreads his cloak protectively over a group of kneeling Dominican nuns and novices, suggesting that this panel belonged to a Dominican convent.
The letters “IHS” in the background on both sides are a Christogram: a monogram derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-sigma.
The letters “IHS” in the background on both sides are a Christogram: a monogram derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-sigma.
MEDIUM
Tempera on two panels
DATES
ca. 1490
DIMENSIONS
17 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (43.5 x 32.4 cm) (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed recto left: "Bene scripisti de me Tomeus"
Inscribed recto right: "Crea in me Deus"
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
41.894a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in memory of her husband
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Lorenzo d'Alessandro da San Severino (Italian, School of the Marches, documented 1462–1503). Christ on the Cross Adored by Saints Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena (Recto); Saint Dominic with Saints and Worshipping Nuns (Verso), ca. 1490. Tempera on two panels, 17 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (43.5 x 32.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in memory of her husband, 41.894a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.894_side1_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
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