Man of Sorrow
by SODOMA, Il, Fresco
Sodoma painted two small-format wall paintings in the passage leading from the cloister into the onetime chapter house in Monteoliveto Maggiore. In their form and subject matter - Christ Carrying the Cross and the Man of Sorrows - these are classic votive images, and that they were intended as such is underscored by the inscriptions that accompany them.