She grasps the Virgin at the knees, beginning a clockwise oval of hot color the Magdalene's vermilion robe to the orange in Mary's group, to the very warm off-white of the man on the left-hand ladder, to the red-orange garments along the top of the cross, and back down to the weeping man's molten vanilla robe.

WSJ: Il Rosso Fiorentino | Deposition | A Maelstrom of Grief | Masterpiece by Peter Plagens