Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels

Filippo Lippi's Christ on the Cross, painted around 1435 and now in the Museo Horne, Florence, is a devotional Crucifixion panel from the artist's early career. The work reflects Lippi's engagement with the emotional intensity of Passion imagery while maintaining his characteristic lyrical grace. Lippi, raised in the Carmelite convent of Santa Maria del Carmine, would have been deeply familiar with the devotional function of Crucifixion paintings in monastic settings.

Lippi combines emotional restraint with careful anatomical rendering of the crucified Christ, using his characteristic soft color harmonies and the delicate linear style that distinguished his approach from more dramatic contemporary treatments.