Christ carrying the Cross

Christ is here depicted as if turning to his mother or to one of the other holy women who witnessed the procession to <a href="http://nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/glossary/the-way-to-calvary">Calvary</a> where he was crucified. The faces of two soldiers are also included in the <a href="http://nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/glossary/composition">composition</a>; one of them is only just discernible in the darkness top right.<br /><br /> Melone was a pupil of <a href="http://nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/girolamo-romanino">Gerolamo Romanino</a>.<br /><br /> <GC_CODE>