Title: Deposition
Artist: Rosso Fiorentino
Location: Chapel of Compangia della Croce di Giorno, San Francesco, Volterra
Date: 1521
- Fiorentino - red-headed Florentine
- pet-monkey often disrupts work
- compagnia devoted to true cross
- chapel is dedicated to the cross and virgin mary
- changed previous alterpieces for being too explorative
- precarious poses, crisp skies
- focus on drapery and light
- creates angular composition - bodies, drapery ladder ,mary and christ
- figures inconsistent in scale
- Christ is shown as serene
- Compare to Dead Christ by same artist
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