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Some were made as collector's pieces, to be viewed and displayed in private, and others for practical or devotional purposes, such as decorations for caskets, ink-stands and paxes.  Belli spent the most important part of his career in Rome, working for two successive popes.  Almost all of his bronze plaquettes are cast from his engravings in rock crystal or hardstone.  This plaquette derives from a set of such engravings which were once set in the base of a rock crystal crucifix.  The bronze would have been cast from a plaster or brass mould made from the original engraving.","physicalDescription":"Oval bronze plaquette with scene of Christ carrying the cross over his shoulder, dragged along by one soldier and pushed by another.  In the background a crowd of figures, some on horse-back.  St. Veronica kneels at the left holding the veil with the image of Christ's face on it.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Belli, Valerio","id":"A10938"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"bronze","id":"AAT10957"}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Bronze","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Plaques & Plaquettes","id":"THES49031"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2009CB7463"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"62 (VA)","id":"THES49739"},"free":"","case":"CA7","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Plaquette","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"after 1525","earliest":"1526-01-01","latest":null},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"first half of 16th century","earliest":"1500-01-01","latest":"1550-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Salting Bequest","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"8.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"9.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Inscription:  VALERIVS.VICENTINVS.F","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Valerio Vicentino (Belli) made it","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscription in relief in exergue"}],"objectHistory":"From the Salting bequest.\n\nHistorical significance: Cast from a mould made of an engraved intaglio rock crystal plaque by Valerio Belli in the Vatican Museum which was originally mounted with other oval reliefs of the Betrayal of Christ and the Entombment in the base of a rock crystal Crucifx.  For other examples of the plaquette see Burns et al, 2000","historicalContext":"Shows how images known from engraved gems and hardstones persisted and often appeared again in bronze plaquettes and small reliefs.","briefDescription":"Plaquette, bronze, depicting Christ bearing the cross, by Valerio  Belli, after 1525, Italy","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, E, <font -u>Catalogue of Italian Plaquettes</font>, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1924, p.63"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, J, <font -u>Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. 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