Corinna Tania Gallori

The Triptych in the Diözesanmuseum in Vienna CORINNA GALLORI The collection of the Diözesanmuseum in Vienna includes a mid-15th Century painted triptych, the execution of which can be traceable in the Lombard milieu. This study’s intent is to bring up this artwork – which has never been thoroughly researched – to the attention of scholars, analyzing different aspects of it: the reconstruction of the passages of property that brought it to its current location, the problems of attribution, the complex iconography. This element deserves particular attention, since the altarpiece is unusually abundant in episodes, linked to one another in a less than clear way. The in-depth analysis particularly concerns one specific element, the Dead Christ with Three Angels (Engel- Pietà), showing an iconography correspondent to that of several other works, Italian and foreign, possibly the result of the diffusion of a common printed source.