
Perino del Vaga (Florence 1501-Rome 1547)
A Fragment: The Bad Thief (Gestas) c. 1520-25
RCIN 402868
This and no. 4i to the left are the only surviving fragments of an altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, damaged by a flood in October 1530 and dismembered by 1600. The missing sections showed Christ lowered from the cross by grieving apostles, two of whom are visible on the right panel.