Offered by Dei Bardi Art
Sculptures and works of art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Alabaster Golgotha
Italy, 17th cenury
Alabaster with traces of polychromy
16 x 10 x 9 cm
The Golgotha (literally "Place of the Skull ») is a hill on the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem where those condemned to death were crucified. A cross completed this crucifixion.