Dead Christ - (Puglia)

Archconfraternity  SS. Rosary

Foundation year: 1629

City: Bitonto (BA)

Archdiocese: Bari-Bitonto

Artistic artefact (canvas, fresco, statue, etc.): Processional statuary group

Title: Cradle of the dead Christ

Dimensions: 150x60 cm

Year of execution: Dead Christ 17th century. Cradle 1896

Author (with year of birth and death): Cradle: drawing by Francesco Spinelli, made by the engraver brother Domenico Minardi

Brief description of the work and of the author's profile: The seventeenth-century dead Christ is placed in the cradle in gilded wood and in sumptuous Baroque style, supported by four angular angels and adorned with four small squares on each side depicting the shroud, a rooster, the signs of the Passion, the Roman armor. It is illuminated by eighteen red glass globes which, together with the twenty-four surrounding the platband on which it rests, paint the darkness of the night red.