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L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy open Visit museumarrow_right_alt

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Our Lady of Ambrose
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Enthroned Madonna with Child
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Enthroned Madonna with Child
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Madonna of Fossa
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Leonardo di Sabino da Teramo, detto il Maestro del Trittico di Beffi - Enthroned Madonna with Child and scenes from the life of Jesus and the Virgin (Triptych of Beffi)
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St. Francis receives the stigmata
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Francesco da Montereale - Madonna and Child with Saints
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Saturnino Gatti - Enthroned Madonna with Child and Angels
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Pompeo Cesura - Christ at the column
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Mattia Preti - Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (detail)
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Jusepe de Ribera - The Magdalene in meditation on the skull
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Andrea Vaccaro - Sant'Agata in prison
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Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruther - Hare
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Relief with funeral procession
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Relief with gladiator ludi
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amiternino calendar
Our Lady of Ambrose
Enthroned Madonna with Child
Enthroned Madonna with Child
Madonna of Fossa
Leonardo di Sabino da Teramo, detto il Maestro del Trittico di Beffi - Enthroned Madonna with Child and scenes from the life of Jesus and the Virgin (Triptych of Beffi)
St. Francis receives the stigmata
Francesco da Montereale - Madonna and Child with Saints
Saturnino Gatti - Enthroned Madonna with Child and Angels
Pompeo Cesura - Christ at the column
Mattia Preti - Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (detail)
Jusepe de Ribera - The Magdalene in meditation on the skull
Andrea Vaccaro - Sant'Agata in prison
Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruther - Hare
Relief with funeral procession
Relief with gladiator ludi
amiternino calendar

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Description

The relief found in Amiternum is certainly one of the most important testimonies relating to the carrying out of a funeral ceremony. The sculptural apparatus represents a funeral procession scene organized on two compositional registers which, in reality, have the purpose of giving depth and three-dimensionality to the representation. The characters present on the stone slab are numerous, but identifiable in their tasks: starting from the left, at the top, the praeficae are visible, women specially paid to artfully demonstrate the pain, singing songs in honor of the deceased; on the lower level there are eight men (lecticarii) who support the coffin, anticipated by the dissignator, who directs the ceremony; on the right the flute players (tibicines) are recognizable, while above the horn players (cornicines), preceded by a trumpeter (tubicen). In the central position the deceased is depicted, placed on a funeral bed: the position, unnatural for a dead person, of the elbow bent on the pillows suggests that it was an actor who played the role of the missing character. The exsequiae, that is funeral honors, originally took place at night, to safeguard the integrity of priests or magistrates as the mere sight of the deceased's body caused impurity. The relief can be considered a work of local folk art and it is possible to date it between the end of the 1st century BC. and the beginning of the following century.

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