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Artwork Description

The flowers are arranged in the same positions as the figures in Antonello da Messina’s Crucifixion of Antwerp, one of the fundamental paintings in the history of Western art and in the relationship between Northern and Southern Europe. By superimposing the two images, it is evident how each flower occupies exactly the space corresponding to a figure in the painting, thus taking on a precise symbolic role. At the center, the clover represents Jesus, evoking the Trinity and, through it, the resurrection. The dried clover symbolizes the bad thief, while the dried clover that blooms again indicates the good thief, suggesting the idea of redemption. The white lily represents the Madonna, while the columbine depicts Saint John the Evangelist. In this way, the flowers are not merely natural elements arranged in space, but become true symbolic substitutes for the figures, creating a visual and conceptual dialogue between nature and sacred painting. Grone’s works for his solo exhibition at Boccanera in Milan (September 2027) will be based on this principle. The series is titled Florilegium, which means both a collection of flowers and an anthology of literary texts.