The Croce al Tempio Lamentation is a 1436 or 1440 tempera-on-panel painting by Fra Angelico, now in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence.
It is named after its commissioner, the 'Compagnia di Santa Maria della Croce al Tempio'.
Others argue that the letters hidden on the edge of the Virgin Mary's cloak – MIIIXXXX (1440) – mean the work was left half-finished and was only completed after the artist returned from his 1439–40 staty in Cortona.
According to her hagiography by Razzi entitled Santi e Beati dell'Ordine Domenicano, she aspired to share Christ's sufferings and had frequent visions of him as her heavenly spouse.
[3] Some of the figures are of lower quality and not in the master's hand, but the landscape on the left is securely attributed to him, with Jerusalem portrayed in the guise of Florence, including Lorenzo Ghiberti's Ark of San Zenobi.