Another name for the work is “Pieta Dona dalle Rosa”. It was custom-made for the home chapel.
In a panoramic interpretation of the landscape, against which the grieving Mother, mourning the Son, is seen, the researchers see the influence of the representatives of the northern schools and, in particular, Albrecht Durer. twice visited Venice. And, in addition, – Gothic German sculpture, well known in Italy.
Since in buildings on a landscape background contrasted by the triangular monumental composition of the first plan, the Palazzo della Ragione and the facade of the Vicenza Cathedral, erected by Andrea Palladio, were differentiated, it was assumed that the customers could be the inhabitants of Vicenza. However, the landscape shows the gate tower Castello, and the river Nattis, flowing in the area near the city of Cividale, and the Equinoxes of San Apollinare Nuovo.
Convolvulus at the head of Christ – a symbol of divine love for the human race, and here – His sacrifices. The ivy motif continues in a fragment with a felled tree. In the Middle Ages, in connection with the fact that the shoots of this plant often twine dead trees, an allegory arose: “Non meis viribus” – such a tree was a symbol of the life of the soul after the death of the body, as a blessing of faith in the Resurrection of Christ.
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