# Christ Bearing the Cross [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TACCA, Ferdinando]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Bronze, with red-brown lacquer patina, 17 x 25 cm ## Commentary Christ Bearing the Cross c. 1650 Bronze, with red-brown lacquer patina, 17 x 25 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York There are other surviving examples of this plaque. The plaques do not suggest the atmospheric breadth achieved in Tacca's masterpiece in relief, the Stoning of Saint Stephen, in Santo Stefano al Ponte Vecchio, Florence, and are probably to be dated somewhat earlier. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo]() - [Bireno and Olimpia]() - [Fontana del Bacchino \(detail\)]() - [Fontana del Bacchino]() - [Fontana del Bacchino]() - [Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar]() - [Infant angel with candelabra]() - [Infant angel with candelabra]() - [Putto Holding Shield to His Left]() - [Putto Holding Shield to His Right]() - [Standing Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()