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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.
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 ...
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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The Lamentation of Christ by circle of Rubens (Alte Pinakothek) Lament over the Dead Christ (Veronese) The Lamentation of Christ (Anthony van Dyck, Alte Pinakothek) Lamentation (Annibale Carracci) Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) Lamentation of Christ (Dürer, Nuremberg) Lamentation of Christ (Bouts) Life of Christ (Giotto)
Behind the group is the dark entrance to Christ's tomb, and some trees. The three background figures have slim gold haloes, but Christ and the Virgin do not. Carracci (1560–1609) painted many scenes of the pietà in his artistic career from around 1580 to around 1605. This version, dated to c. 1604, is thought to be one of the latest.
The Lamentation of Christ (under many closely variant terms) is a common subject from the Life of Christ in art, showing Jesus' dead body being mourned after the Crucifixion. Jesus himself lamented over the prospective fall of Jerusalem as he and his disciples entered the city ahead of his passion. [7]
The subject of the Lamentation of Christ has been painted since the inception of Christianity and it was a common subject of Italian Renaissance painters. Botticelli completed another version entitled Lamentation over the Dead Christ between 1490 and 1495. The current painting was completed around the same period between 1490 and 1492.