# Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PONTORMO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood ## Commentary Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion \(detail\) c. 1531 Oil on wood Galleria Palatina \(Palazzo Pitti\), Florence The various crucifixions in the background may have been based upon a single three-dimensional small-scale model turned at different angles and actually in one case lying on the ground. Throughout the picture and especially with the nudes, Pontormo shows himself to be a worthy follower of Michelangelo, but he has not accepted the older artist's predilection for massive proportions, favouring instead a more delicate, lyric figural anatomy. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve at Work]() - [Alessandro de' Medici in Profile]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Anatomical study]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Birth Tray \(back\)]() - [Birth Tray \(front\)]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()