Anointment of the Dead Christ ca. 1588–96 Probably cast by Fra Domenico Portigiani This scene is a replica of one of a series of reliefs on the bronze grille by Pietro Francavilla that encloses the Stone of Unction in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, commissioned by Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici in 1588. Fra Domenico Portigiani was paid in 1596 for the casting of relief on the Anointment of the Dead Christ. After a model by Giambologna (Netherlandish, Douai 1529–1608 Florence). Italian, Florence. ca. 1588–96. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze

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