Sansepolcro Deposition

Artist	Rosso Fiorentino
Year	1528
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	270 by 201 centimetres (106 in × 79 in)
Location	San Lorenzo, Sansepolcro

The Sansepolcro Deposition or Sansepolcro Lamentation is a 1528 oil on canvas painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in San Lorenzo church in Sansepolcro.^[1]

It was commissioned in 23 September 1527 by the Confraternity of the Holy Cross (hence its subject) for its altar in Santa Croce church in Sansepolcro. Rosso had arrived in the town shortly before this date.^[2]

References

Bibliography (in Italian)

A. Brilli – F. Chieli, Sansepolcro e i suoi musei, Arti Grafiche Motta, Milano 2004, pp. 32–36.
Antonio Natali, Rosso Fiorentino, Silvana Editore, Milano 2006. ISBN 88-366-0631-8
Elisabetta Marchetti Letta, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Scala, Firenze 1994. ISBN 88-8117-028-0

Rosso Fiorentino

Paintings

Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1510)
Assumption of the Virgin (1513–1514)
Madonna and Child with Cherubs (c. 1512–1517)
Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1517–1518)
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Letter (1518)
Spedalingo Altarpiece (1518)
Portrait of a Young Man in Black (c. 1520)
Portrait of a Young Man with a Helmet (c. 1520)
Cherub Playing a Lute (1521)
Villamagna Altarpiece (1521)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1521)
The Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1521)
Volterra Deposition (c. 1521)
Dei Altarpiece (1522)
Portrait of a Man (c. 1522)
Portrait of a Man in Black (c. 1520–1522)
Marriage of the Virgin (1523)
Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters (c. 1523–1524)
Death of Cleopatra (c. 1525)
The Dead Christ with Angels (c. 1525–1526)
Portrait of a Young Man Seated on a Carpet (c. 1525–1527)
Sansepolcro Deposition (1528)
The Risen Christ in Glory (1528–1530)
Bacchus, Venus and Cupid (1531–1532)
Pietà (c. 1537–1540)