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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted c.1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle of the Life of Christ on the interior walls of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. [1] The Scrovegni Chapel was built as a private chapel next to the Eremitani Monastery by the wealthy Scrovegni family and consecrated in 1305.
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.
The Lamentation of Christ is a topic in Christian religious art, especially popular in the High Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, which depicts the moment of mourning following the Crucifixion and lowering of Christ's body from the cross. Mantegna's variant includes some aspects commonly associated with the scene, including the ...
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The work shows the common Lamentation of Christ theme, with Jesus depicted immediately after his deposition from the cross, surrounded by the people who loved him in life. They include John, who supports a Virgin Mary shattered by pain, Mary Magdalene crying at Jesus' feet and, in the background, Nicodemus with the pincer he used to remove ...
The Mourning of Christ, c. 1513–1520, oil on wood, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia (c. 1480–1485 – after 1548), was an Italian High Renaissance painter active mostly in Venice, although he also worked in other cities in northern Italy.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Presentation in the Temple: 44 × 43cm: United States: Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Acquired by Jean Paul Richter in 1900 on the advice of Bernard Berenson; one of the best of the group. Last Supper: 42.56 × 43cm: Germany: Munich: Alte Pinakothek: Acquired from a private collection by Maximilian I of ...
Annibale Carracci, The Dead Christ Mourned, c. 1604. 92.8 cm × 103.2 cm (36.5 in × 40.6 in).Oil canvas. National Gallery, London.. The Dead Christ Mourned (also known as Lamentation of Christ, Pietà with the Three Marys, or The Three Marys) is an oil painting on canvas of c. 1604 by Annibale Carracci. [1]