The Crucifixion

Whatever the importance of the artists who worked at the Sacri Monti (besides Gaudenzio and Morazzone, artists of the highest order were Tanzio da Varallo and his brothers, woodcarvers), one of the imperatives to which they always had to submit was the perfect fusion of sculpture and fresco, so as to recreate the Biblical or hagiographic event with the utmost veracity: the final chapter of the sacred representations.