Antependium
A. Carracci three-part copy engraving "Great Crucifixion" after Tintoretto (Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, 1565).
Crucifixion; inscriptions: "AMOR QVAM SIT POTENS IESV hiC INSPICE hOMO Ao MDCIX APRIL XVI" [along the lower edge]; "EX IACOBI FILIABVS OPVS PATRIS ROBVSTI TENTORETTO" [in the image field at the lower left].
The convent of Sant'Anna is located on the outskirts of Castello; after the dissolution of the convent in Napoleonic times, it was bought by the Savorgnan, especially by Conte Luigi, a collector, in the area of Santa Maria Formosa. Subsequently acquired by the Habsburgs. The object is recorded in the Ambras collection in 1880 (Generalinventur Ambr. Sammlg., XV, 135, 53; 1880/1/9 Ambras), but already inventoried at the end of the 19th century in the collection of art-industrial objects (today's Kunstkammer) under the number 5411 ( verifiable in the inventory of 1896). It was moved from Vienna to Ambras Castle for presentation in May 1936. Transferred to Stams Monastery in the course of the Second World War for the purpose of "Bergungsmaßnahmen" [safety operation] (the exact date is unknown). Stolen from the storage site in March 1946 (Stams Monastery).
Julius von Schlosser, Album ausgewähler Gegenstände der Sammlung kunstindustrieller Gegenstände des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Wien 1901, Fig. 9, 20, 31f.
Giuseppe Tassini, Curiosità Veneziane, Venedig 1970, 29, 723.
Roland Krischel, Tintoretto, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, 129 f., 132 f., 143, Anm. 133.
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