Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . MARBLE PANEL. ( N? 31 4--78). ITALIAN FIFTEENTH CENTURY. PANEL. MARBLE. No. 314—1878. THIS panel is almost square in shape, and the subject is carved in lowrelief. It is of the school of Donatello, Italian, of the early part ofthe fifteenth century. It was obtained from the Lazzari palace at Padua. In the centre, the Blessed Virgin is seated, holding the dead body ofour Lord on her lap, and supporting His head with her left hand, whilsther right arm, passed across her breast, lift
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . MARBLE PANEL. ( N? 31 4--78). ITALIAN FIFTEENTH CENTURY. PANEL. MARBLE. No. 314—1878. THIS panel is almost square in shape, and the subject is carved in lowrelief. It is of the school of Donatello, Italian, of the early part ofthe fifteenth century. It was obtained from the Lazzari palace at Padua. In the centre, the Blessed Virgin is seated, holding the dead body ofour Lord on her lap, and supporting His head with her left hand, whilsther right arm, passed across her breast, lifts Him up beneath His portion of the composition is in the common style of a Pieta of themiddle ages. But the group which is gathered round the two chief figures is treatedin a very unusual manner : nor is it easy to suggest whom the figures areintended to represent. Five, in the background, stand upright and aremen ; probably two or three of them (more especially the second man onthe left hand, whose face is seen in profile) are portraits. A portion of thefoot of the Cross would seem to
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