Val di Chiana Aretina
Cristo alla colonna
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The sculpture was created in 1617, coinciding with the restoration of the church and the founding of the Compagnia della Buona Morte (Company of the Good Death), by the Lucignano-born carver Niccolò di Smeraldo Salvi and painted by Michelangelo Busti of Cortona. Salmi places these religious wooden sculptures in the wake of a Renaissance tradition and identifies Salvi's naturalism as having a more pronounced formalism than that of other artists, such as Sallustio Lombardi. The sculpture does not appear to differ significantly in quality from the Risen Christ in the Church of the Gesù (1620), as Cantelli points out.
The sculpture was created in 1617, coinciding with the restoration of the church and the founding of the Compagnia della Buona Morte (Company of the Good Death), by the Lucignano-born carver Niccolò di Smeraldo Salvi and painted by Michelangelo Busti of Cortona. Salmi places these religious wooden sculptures in the wake of a Renaissance tradition and identifies Salvi's naturalism as having a more pronounced formalism than that of other artists, such as Sallustio Lombardi. The sculpture does not appear to differ significantly in quality from the Risen Christ in the Church of the Gesù (1620), as Cantelli points out.