This fresco was painted by Marco Palmezzano on the wall of the apse of the church annexed to the convent of Santa Maria della Torre (or della Ripa) in Forlì, around 1492. The work is fundamental for reconstructing the painter's artistic events, both because documents the ways and influences of his first activity, both because it remains the only testimony of the Forlì in the field of fresco. In this work Palmezzano refers to the fresco by Melozzo degli Ambrogi with the Entry of Christ into Jerusalem from the Sacristy of Loreto, both for the spatial layout, created with a very high vanishing point, and for the round arch delimited by the two lateral pilasters decorated with candelabra and braid motifs. In the painting the Melozzesque references blend with the evident Umbrian inspiration, in particular Peruginesque, recognizable in the very high cross and in the softened expressions and in the attitudes strongly characterized by the beautiful figures (Togni, 2016).

Texts: Lorenza Montanari, Martina Neri - Museums Unit of the Municipality of Forlì