Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints

1603 painting by Annibale Carracci

Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints is a 1603 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci in a gold, ebony and copper frame. It is now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.

A small altarpiece commissioned by cardinal Odoardo Farnese for his private devotions, its central scene shows a pieta with the dead Christ, the Virgin Mary, Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene. The inner faces of the doors show Saint Cecilia and Saint Hermenegild above small scenes of their martyrdoms.,^[1] whilst their exterior show Michael the Archangel and a guardian angel below a lunette of Christ and God the Father.^[2]

References

^ "Catalogue entry".
^ "WGA entry".

Annibale Carracci

Paintings

List of paintings
The Laughing Youth (1580s)
The Beaneater (1580–1590)
Butcher's Shop (1583)
Crucifixion with Saints (1583)
Corpse of Christ (1583–1585)
An Allegory of Truth and Time (1584–1585)
Baptism of Christ (1585)
Pietà with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene (1585)
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (c. 1585)
The Vision of Saint Eustace (1585–1586)
Two Children Teasing a Cat (1587–1588)
Madonna and Child with Saints (1588)
Venus with a Satyr and Two Cupids (1588–1590)
Lamentation (1587–1590)
Self-Portrait in Profile (1590s)
Assumption of the Virgin (1590)
The Virgin Appears to Saint Luke and Saint Catherine (1592)
Self-Portrait (1593)
Madonna and Child with Saints (1593)
Resurrection (1593)
Madonna and Child in Glory over the City of Bologna (c. 1593)
Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1593–1594)
Saint Roch Giving Alms (1587–1595)
Fishing (before 1595)
Hunting (before 1595)
River Landscape (c. 1590)
Christ and the Canaanite Woman (1594–1595)
Entombment of Christ (c. 1595)
Venus, Adonis and Cupid (c. 1595)
Camerino Farnese
- The Choice of Hercules (1596)
Christ in Glory with Saints and Odoardo Farnese (c. 1597–1598)
The Death of Saint Francis (1597–1598)
Saint Margaret of Antioch (1599)
Christ Appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot (1598–1600)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (1598–1600)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bologna) (c. 1598–1600)
The Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant St John the Baptist (c. 1599–1600)
Pietà (c. 1600)
The Three Marys at the Tomb (c. 1600)
Rinaldo and Armida (c. 1601)
Assumption of the Virgin (1600–1601)
Saint Gregory at Prayer (c. 1600–1602)
Domine quo vadis? (c. 1602)
Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints (1603)
Pietà with Two Angels (c. 1603)
Sleeping Venus (c. 1603)
Self-Portrait on an Easel (1603–1604)
The Martyrdom of St Stephen (c. 1603–1604)
Portrait of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Agucchi (1604) (disputed)
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
The Dead Christ Mourned (c. 1604)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
Danaë (1600–1605)
Saint Didacus of Alcalá Presenting Juan de Herrera's Son to Christ (c. 1606)
Pietà with Saint Francis and Saint Mary Magdalene (1602–1607)
The Loves of the Gods (1608)
The Birth of the Virgin (1605–1609)