Grieving Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist – North Carolina Museum of Art – Raleigh
The two tondos can be dated back to about 1520 and were probably part of a predella: the two figures are in fact built in a specular way and both look towards the center, where there was the main table whose subject, given the iconography of the two characters, it was probably a Deposition of the Christ from the cross.
The Madonna, on the left, joins her hands to the chest: the head is covered in sign of mourning by a dark blue mantle that remains open on the chest, allowing a glimpse of the red robe; on the opposite side Saint John the Evangelist joins the hands downwards, his shoulders curved under the clear mantle open at the front, and he is moved by the lost central scene.
The panels are preserved at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
