WORKSHOP OF GUGLIELMO DELLA PORTA (1500-1577), ROME, CIRCA 1570

The present tabernacle with the central figure of Christ at the Column is closely comparable to a relief depicting the Flagellation of Christ attributed by Rosario Coppel to the Roman sculptor and silversmith Guglielmo della Porta (R. Coppel et al., Guglielmo della Porta: A Counter-Reformation Sculptor, Coll & Cortes, Madrid, 2012, pp. 74-97). The central figure of Christ is practically identical in both, and Coppel bases the attribution on convincing comparisons with both drawings by della Porta and a series of other figures of Christ at the Column and Flagellation groups historically attributed to him.