Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints
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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 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.
A small altarpiece commissioned by cardinal Odoardo Farnese 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.,[1] whilst their exterior show Michael the Archangel and a guardian angel below a lunette of Christ and God the Father.[2]
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- 1603 paintings
- Paintings by Annibale Carracci
- Collections of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
- Paintings of the Pietà
- Paintings depicting John the Apostle
- Paintings depicting Mary Magdalene
- Paintings of Saint Cecilia
- 17th-century painting stubs