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''Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints'' is a 1603 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci in a gold, ebony and copper frame. It is now in the
''Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints'' is a 1603 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci in a gold, ebony and copper frame. It is now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica or National Gallery of Ancient Art is an art museum in Rome, Italy. It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any antiquities. It has two ...
in Rome.
A small altarpiece commissioned by cardinal Odoardo Farnese
Odoardo Farnese (28 April 1612 – 11 September 1646), also known as Odoardo I Farnese to distinguish him from his grandson Odoardo II Farnese, was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1622 to 1646.
Biography
Odoardo was the eldest legit ...
for his private devotions, its central scene shows a pieta with the dead Christ, the Virgin Mary, Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene. The inner faces of the doors show Saint Cecilia and Saint Hermenegild above small scenes of their martyrdoms., whilst their exterior show Michael the Archangel
Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...
and a guardian angel below a lunette of Christ and God the Father.
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