Lot 60: - Workshop of Baccio da Montelupo (1469-1535) Italian, early 16th century , a painted wood Corpus, Cristo Morto

mounted on cross in later arched frame and with rockwork base below centred by a skull

measurements note corpus: 46cm., 18in. frame: 127cm., 50in.

Although Baccio da Montelupo's first recorded work is a terracotta Pieta group of 1495, the success of his wooden crucifix (1496) in San Marco, Florence, led to his workshop specializing in the production of wood corpora. Compare the treatment of the torso and the realistically rendered perizonium with work attributed to Baccio da Montelupo and his workshop and illustrated by Lisner. A particular comparison can be made with a wood corpus in Santa Maria Novella, fig. 183. RELATED LITERATURE
M. Lisner, Holzkruzifixe in Florenz und in der Toskana (Munich, 1970) figs. 173-197