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Original fileDeposition from the Cross (detail)
The image shows a portion of a hillside landscape under a bright sky filled with horizontal cloud formations. A slender, stylized palm tree occupies the left side, while a simple stone tower sits atop a brown hill in the center. To the right, lush foliage of a deciduous tree frames the scene, overlooking a valley with smaller, scattered trees.
As a prominent Dominican painter in 15th-century Florence, Fra Angelico's work represents the synthesis of traditional Christian iconography with the emerging naturalism of the Early Renaissance. The palm tree is a traditional symbol of the Holy Land and martyrdom, grounding the biblical narrative in a specific, yet idealized, geographic context that prefigures the intellectual environment of the Medici circle.
Marsilio Ficino
Fra Angelico's artistic output for the Medici family established the visual language of the Florentine Renaissance that immediately preceded Ficino's Neoplatonic revival.
Object
Web Gallery of Art
Oil on panel
religious
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artworkwga QS:P11807,"a/angelico/08/8trinita"
Public domain
3812 × 3400 px
ba73a396a4de34a5c261f23c58884305d221c27f
June 9, 2011
March 23, 2026
Linked Data
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