Design for a "Quarantore" Decoration, Federico Zuccaro, 1540–1609

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Design for a 'Quarantore' Decoration, 1540–1609, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, 15-5/16 x 11-1/4 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42–1609 Ancona), This carefully drawn scale model provides a design for a liturgical practice that came to be widely celebrated in the late sixteenth century. As shown here, the Eucharist was placed in a small sepulcher where it remained, and was worshiped, for the same forty hours that Christ's body lay in the tomb prior to the Resurrection

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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