Sunday, September 02, 2018

Christ of Sorrows - Found Art from the Morgan

















Christ of Sorrows,
Surrounded by clouds.


Christ, with a rayed nimbus, 
wears a loincloth and displays His wounds.
He is standing within a mandorla 
on a ledge.

In front of the ledge are half figures of a nimbed Virgin Mary,
wearing a wimpled veil and crossing her hands at her breast,
and a nimbed Evangelist John
with his joined hands raised.



The scene is framed by a border
with a donor kneeling beneath a canopy on a cushion.
His joined hands are raised before
an open book on a prie-dieu.

The figure is within an architectural setting of a church interior.
In the lower right corner,
a dog with a collar lies on the floor.


https://www.themorgan.org/collection/da-costa-hours/394

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