The Madonna weeping over the Instruments of the Passion
after Alessandro Allori (Florence 1535 - Florence 1607)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1570 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel (poplar)
Measurements
930 x 760 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336665
Caption
This is one of the earliest examples of the Virgin, here wearing a brown hooded cloak, alone weeping over the Instruments of Passion: the lance, crown of thorns and nails. It shows stylistic influences both from the North and Italy and was once thought to be by a Spanish artist.It is an iconic devotional image, on a light softwood, poplar panel. The Latin inscription along the ledge at the bottom: ELICIT EFFUSI LACRIMAS IACTURA CRUORIS can be translated as: the loss of blood brings forth many tears.
Summary
Oil painting on panel (poplar), The Madonna weeping over the Instruments of the Passion, Italian School, late 16th-century, after Alessandro Allori (Florence 1535 - 1607)? after Zanetto Bugatto (Milan c.1433 - Pavia or Milan 1476), inscribed along ledge at bottom: ELICIT EFFUSI LACRIMAS IACTURA CRUORIS. The Madonna, half-length, turned slightly left, wearing a brown cloak and hood and blue dress with white cuffs, her hands crossed over her breast, bends her head over the instruments of the Passion placed before her on a ledge; at the left is the shaft of the Cross. In an elaborate, gilded wooden frame.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade (1883 - 1956); moved from Snowshill to Montacute in 1969; returned to Snowshill November 1990
Makers and roles
after Alessandro Allori (Florence 1535 - Florence 1607), artist after Zanetto Bugatto (Milan c.1433 - 1476), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Spanish School, artist