Madonna con Cristo deposto

The painting depicts “Our Lady of Sorrows with the Deposed Christ” (Madonna con Cristo deposto in Italian), with putti holding some symbols of the crucifixion.

The painting, a re-elaboration of an ancient engraving, has been realized with oil paints and golden varnish to embellish the decorative details and subjected to a process of aging in order to recreate the characteristics of an ancient painting. The glass painting is an ancient painting technique almost disappeared, whose peculiarity is to realize the subjects according to a “specular” perspective, so that at the end of the work the glass sheet must be “turned”, to show the correct side that will be clearly visible thanks to the transparency of the glass. In order to obtain the correct pictorial result, the artist will have to proceed by superimposing various layers of paint, inserting, first, the decorative details of the subject, and then finish with the larger parts.