Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Italy / Varallo / Sacro Monte / Chapel 34

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Life of Christ / Passion / Trial of Christ / Christ before Pilate / Pilate washing his hands (Mt. 27:24)

Further details

Detail of Chapel 34. Construction was begun by 1608. Sculptures by Giovanni d'Enrico and frescoes by Tanzio da Varallo. Polychromy of the statues may have been carried out by Melchiorre d'Enrico. The chapel was not completed until after 1617. See Stefani Perrone.

Artist or creator

d'Enrico, Giovanni (1559-1644) and
d'Enrico, Antonio (Tanzio da Varallo) (born c1575-1580, died c1632-1633)

Date

1608 (circa) - 1617 after

Location

Varallo, Sacro Monte (Chapel 34)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Elena De Filippis, Sacro Monte of Varallo (Borgosesia: Tipolitografia, 2009); Stefania Stefani Perrone, Guida al Sacro Monte di Varallo (Turin: Kosmos, 1995).

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Web resources

Sacro Monte di Varallo (with additional information from Casimiro Debiaggi), in Italian

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Acknowledgements

Image digitised with the generous support of the Roaf and Demuth families.

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