Man of Sorrows

Niccolò di Tommaso

ca. 1370 · Fresco transferred to canvas · The Cloisters

This impressive devotional image by a follower of Nardo di Cione presumably came from a Florentine monastery. It may originally have been placed above a door or as a lunette beneath an arch, or possibly in a niche above a tomb. Shown as the Man of Sorrows, at once dead and alive, Christ displays the wounds of his Passion.

Artist

Niccolò di Tommaso

Date

ca. 1370

Medium

Fresco transferred to canvas

Culture

Italian

Department

The Cloisters

Credit line

The Cloisters Collection, 1925