# Scenes from the Life of Christ \(left wall\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELE DA FIRENZE]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Terracotta ## Commentary Michele da Firenze is credited with the terracotta tomb of Francesco Roselli \(c. 1430; Arezzo, San Francesco, Arezzo\), but by 1433-35 he had left Tuscany for the Veneto, where he has been identified with the sculptor of the Pellegrini Chapel in Sant'Anastasia, Verona. This is Michele's first independently documented work and is considered to be his masterpiece. In place of the customarily frescoed narrative scenes, Michele encased the chapel walls with an impressive terracotta revetment, originally polychromed, consisting of 24 individual panels depicting the Life, Passion and Death of Christ. Among the most notable are the Kiss of Judas and the Adoration of the Magi, the latter particularly showing an intrinsic debt in its gentle style and architectural motifs to <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghiberti/north\_do/index.html'\)" href="/html/g/ghiberti/north\_do/index.html">Ghiberti's bronze panels</a> for the north doors of the Baptistery in Florence. ## Related artworks - [Scenes from the Life of Christ \(left wall\)]() - [Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Scenes from the Life of Christ \(right wall\)]() - [Tomb of Francesco Roselli \(detail\)]() - [Tomb of Francesco Roselli]() - [View of Pellegrini Chapel]() - [View of the left wall]() - [Virgin and Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()