Pietà
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Pietà with saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene
Pietà with saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene
Crucifixion of Christ between the two thieves in the central compartment, set before a vaulted space with four traceried windows. Numerous figures fill the fore- and middle-ground including the Virgin fainting at the foot of the cross with St John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene and six figures on horseback, including Longinus and Stephaton. In the vault above the Cross, almost obscured by the foliate border of the frame, is the half-length figure of God the Father.
Polyptych: upper: Christ in the House of Mary and Martha with the apostles; interior left wing: Martha visits the sick while Mary dances in the background; interior right wing: Noli me tangere; exterior wings: upper left: man visits prisoners in the stocks, upper right: woman visits prisoners in the stocks, lower left: man visits woman in a tower, lower right: person being flogged on the Gallows; lower: Dance of Mary Magdalene
The beads are graduated, with the largest being the Paternoster. Each bead has fourteen sides, four of which have space for a scene.
Paternoster bead: St. Judas; Resurrection of the Dead (2 scenes); blank
Ave beads: Each apostle can be identified by a shortened form of his name, his attribute and a scroll containing the initial letters of his part of the Apostles' Creed.
1. St. Peter; The Creation of the Heavens; The Creation of the World; the Creation of the Sun, Moon and Stars
2. St. Andrew; Ecce Homo, Man of Sorrows, Ruler of the World
Crucifixion surrounded by a busy scene of horsemen and other onlookers, with architecture in the background. The swooning Virgin Mary is supported by John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene in the left foreground