Via crucis - Station VII, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Second Time
Medium
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Accession Number
1931-67-69-2
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, a prominent Italian Rococo artist (1727–1804) and son of the famed Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, this evocative print around 1749. Tiepolo the younger was renowned for his fluid line work and dramatic compositions, often collaborating with his father on grand frescoes and religious series in Venice. *Via crucis - Station VII He Falls Beneath the Cross Second Time* captures the station of the traditional Catholic Stations of the Cross, devotional sequence meditating on Christ's Passion during Holy Week. As a print, likely an etching, this work exemplifies 18th-century t...