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| Keywords: Ercole de' Roberti - Head of a Mourning Woman - Walters 371707.jpg Ercole de' Roberti was one of the leading artists of Ferrara This painting is closely related to the image of one of the mourning women on a famous fresco of the Crucifixion destroyed in 1606 which the painter executed in a chapel in the Cathedral of St Peter in Bologna It is unusual to see such a detail of a monumental image placed within a carefully delineated framework It has been suggested that it was based on the cartoon a preliminary drawing of actual size used by the artist when painting the fresco The painting demonstrates the artist's ability to depict vividly an extreme state of grief Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 145 216-218 century 15 Renaissance tempera oil panel Painted surface cm 52 4 39 4 ; Panel H 21 1/8 x W 16 1/8 x D excluding cradle 1/4 in 53 7 x 40 9 x 0 7 cm accession number 37 1707 22065 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1881 mode of acquisition unknown 1881 catalogue no 104 1897 catalogue no 110 as St Veronica by Leonardo da Vinci Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Ferrara Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Ercole de' Roberti Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
