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The Lamentation of Christ (also known as the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, The Foreshortened Christ, or the Dead Christ and Three Mourners and other variants) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. It portrays the body of Christ supine on a marble slab.
Other works of this period include the Madonna of the Caves, the St. Sebastian and the famous Lamentation over the Dead Christ, probably painted for his personal funerary chapel. [ citation needed ] Another work of Mantegna's later years was what is known as the Madonna della Vittoria , now in the Louvre.
Lamentation by Giotto, 1305. The Lamentation of Christ [1] is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. [2] After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body.
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In his Lamentation over the Dead christ, Mantegna has here depicted the dead body of Jesus with daring foreshortening, as if the viewer were standing at the end of the slab. In this detail from a larger painting, Mantegna shows a little child, wearing a tummy-binder and holey slippers, turning away and chewing its fingers while the infant ...
English: Lamentation over the Dead Christ (ca. 1480), by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Español: Lamentación sobre Cristo muerto (ca. 1480), del pintor renascentista italiano Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Pinacoteca de Brera en Milan.
The slab and its inscription follows the tradition of Flemish painting, often referenced by Mantegna and other Paduan artists. It appears to separate the viewer in the real world from the artificial world depicted, but crosses the border. The left hand of Christ creates the illusion that the two worlds occupy the same space.
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