# Altar and Altarpiece [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VITTORIA, Alessandro]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Black marble and bronze ## Commentary Vittoria produced some of his greatest works during the 1580s, including a second altar for the Scuola di San Fantin in the Chapel of the Crucifix in Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Probably dating from the first half of the decade, it depicts the Crucifixion, for which Vittoria supplied bronzes of the Virgin and St John, each a little over 1 m high. Weighed down by the heavy folds of her robes but even more by her grief, the sorrowing Virgin has her hands clasped tightly together as she stares downward, providing a counterbalance to the figure of St John, who is portrayed with his arms spread wide and his neck strained upwards to gaze at Christ. ## Related artworks - [A Gentleman of the Zorzi Family]() - [A Lady of the Zorzi Family]() - [Altar of the Luganegheri]() - [Annunciation]() - [Atlante \(left of a pair\)]() - [Atlante \(right of a pair\)]() - [Bust of a Man]() - [Bust of Domenico Duodo]() - [Bust of Francesco Duodo]() - [Bust of Gerolamo Grimani]() - [Bust of Giovanni Battista Ferretti]() - [Bust of Giovanni Donà]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()