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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.
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Mantegna is believed to have studied reproduced castings of these sculptures at Squarcione's Studio. He was also influenced by the work of Donatello and models he himself sculpted to capture anatomy. [6] Later in life, he was in Rome from 1488 to 1490 where he also studied sculptural masterpieces. [7] Christ as the Suffering Redeemer.
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 ...
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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.
Christ, portrayed with open hands to show all the wounds of the crucifixion, is raised on finely sculpted ancient sarcophagus. [citation needed] His body is wrapped in a metallic white drape, and his supported by two kneeling angels (a seraphim and a cherubim). On the left the tomb's cover is visible, while the background is occupied by a far ...
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.