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Palace of Museums - Varallo Art Gallery and Calderini Museum verified

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Polyptych Scarognino
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Christ crowned with thorns
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Lamentation over the body of Christ "Stone of Anointing"
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Gaudenzio Ferrari - Announcing Angel
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Mysteries of the Rosary
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Antonio d'Enrico, detto Tanzio da Varallo - David with the head of Goliath
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Antonio d'Enrico, detto Tanzio da Varallo - David with the head of Goliath
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Flowerpot and wreath
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Pier Celestino Gilardi - The renaiolo sul Po
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Camillo Procaccini - Sacrifice of Isaac
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Antonio d'Enrico, detto Tanzio da Varallo - St. Francis of Assisi in prayer on La Verna
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Bacile
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Round plate
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Centerpiece stand
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Baluster vase
Polyptych Scarognino
Christ crowned with thorns
Lamentation over the body of Christ "Stone of Anointing"
Gaudenzio Ferrari - Announcing Angel
Mysteries of the Rosary
Antonio d'Enrico, detto Tanzio da Varallo - David with the head of Goliath
Antonio d'Enrico, detto Tanzio da Varallo - David with the head of Goliath
Flowerpot and wreath
Pier Celestino Gilardi - The renaiolo sul Po
Camillo Procaccini - Sacrifice of Isaac
Antonio d'Enrico, detto Tanzio da Varallo - St. Francis of Assisi in prayer on La Verna
Bacile
Round plate
Centerpiece stand
Baluster vase

Other works on display

Description

The wooden group of the Anointing Stone comes from the oldest nucleus of the Sacro Monte di Varallo. The chapel that originally housed the sculptures was part of the project of imitation of the Holy Places initiated by the Franciscan Bernardino Caimi and intended to evoke the place, marked by a stone placed in the basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, in which the anointing of the body of Christ before his burial. The group, referring to the Lombard workshop of the brothers Giovanni Pietro and Giovanni Ambrogio De Donati (documented between about 1470 and 1530), among the most active in the Milanese dukedom at the end of the fifteenth century, is among the most important sources for the young Gaudenzio Ferrari , which takes him as a point of reference in his first pictorial works, such as the table with the Crucifixion, always in the museum collections. The profound psychological analysis of the characters, who mute an inner drama, is the product of a refined culture, which translates emotions into simple volumes and into suspended gestures and glances.


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