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Anonymous Italian Renaissance Christ carrying the cross, overall view

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(Introduction)

The Painting

(Complete Study)

Provenance

The Young Figure at Right

Iconography

Technical Analysis

Expert Reports

The Painting and Giampietrino

Comparison and Transformations of the Painting

The Cassago Brianza Ecce Homo

Portrait of a Young Man (Uffizi)

Halo of Christ: Addition and Impact

Added Motif on the Young Man’s Tunic

Anatomical Features and Leonardo da Vinci

Forearm of Christ

Christ’s Shoulder: The Deltoid

Christ’s Hand

Christ’s Ear

Detailed Technical Analysis

Scientific Imagery

Recto of the Panel

Verso of the Panel

Carbon–14 Dating of the Support

Red Wax Seal on the Verso

Inscriptions on the Verso

Cartoon (Preparatory Drawing)

Spolvero (Drawing Transfer)

Paint Layer

Sfumato

Pentimenti (Artist’s Corrections)

Overpainting (Later Reworking)

Overpainting (Details and Additions)

Lighting in the Painting

Radiography (X-ray)

The Venice Drawing

(The Source by Leonardo da Vinci)

Presentation and ritratto di spalla

Art Historians and the Venice Drawing

Influence of the Drawing

Thaddeus in The Last Supper

Thaddeus in The Last Supper: Extension of the Source Model

Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper

Three Copies of the Last Supper

Thaddeus in the Last Supper

Thaddeus: the Reference Copy by Giampietrino

Thaddeus and the Venice Drawing: Comparison

Adam–Thaddeus: Reuse of the Same Model

Giampietrino

(Versions Similar to the Painting)


Giampietrino’s Christ Carrying the Cross Versions

A Common Cartoon Shared with the Painting
Comparison with the Painting, Convergences and Divergences

Comparison with the Painting
(Detailed analyses)

X-ray Comparison

Parting of the Hair of Christ

Assembly of the Cross

Wood Grain of the Cross

Link with Leonardo