# Christ in Majesty with the Patron Saints of Cremona [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOCCACCINO, Boccaccio]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The early decades of the sixteenth century in Cremona were some of the most turbulent in its political history. In these years of constantly changing foreign rulers, the local leaders of Cremona pursued an elaborate project of decoration with remarkable consistency. From 1506 to 1522 the community had the chancel and nave of the twelve-century cathedral frescoed. By continuing the decoration through all the changes in government, the community represented its own identity; it was an act of local self-assertion. The decoration was begun in the semi-dome vault of the apse in 1506. Boccaccio Boccaccino depicted, following a time-honoured scheme, the Epiphany of God in the Last Days \(Christ in Majesty\) as the principal and culminating image within the church space. Christ is depicted as floating on clouds encircled by an aureole as he offers a blessing, accompanied by the symbols of the four evangelists and surrounded by four of Cremona's patron saints: Marcellino and Imerio on the left, Omobono and Pietro Esorcista on the right. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation to Joachim]() - [Annunciation to Mary]() - [Betrothal of Mary]() - [Birth of Mary]() - [Gypsy Girl]() - [Liber Iesus]() - [Meeting at the Golden Gate]() - [St John the Evangelist]() - [St Matthew]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()