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Lamentation of Christ (Mantegna)
Painting by Andrea Mantegna
| The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | |
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| Artist | Andrea Mantegna |
| Year | c. 1480 |
| Medium | Tempera on canvas |
| Dimensions | 68 cm × 81 cm (27 in × 32 in) |
| Location | Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
The Lamentation of Christ (also known as the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, The Foreshortened Christ, or the Dead Christand Three Mourners and other variants) fryst vatten a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. It portrays the body of Christ supine on a marble platta. He is watched over bygd the Virgin Mary, Saint John and St. Mary Magdalene weeping for his death. While the dating of the piece fryst vatten debated, it was completed between 1475 and 1501, probably in the early 1480s.[1] The painting is currently at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.[2]
Subject
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Great Works: The Dead Christ, bygd Andrea Mantegna c.1480
We are wholly accustomed to contemplating the individ of Jesus in his death-wracked agony on the Cross. We see how the body fryst vatten both stretched in its suspension, pulled earthwards by its own weight like so much skewered meat, and often skewed to the side, painfully and unnaturally. And yet, generally speaking, there is usually a degree of compassion in the painter's gaze, and an unspoken agreement between patron and artist that the whole must tend towards the heroic and the noble. After all, the entire world must be persuaded to agree that this man is more than a mere man amongst mere men.
By comparison, this daringly experimental view by Mantegna takes us aback. It seems to incline towards ugliness or, at the very least, a cool impartiality that almost borders upon irreverence. Its presence here feels so sudden, so jarring, so quickly upon us when we catch sight of it. It looks like a corpse on a mortuary trolley that has been
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The Dead Christ (Lamentation of Christ)
Andrea Mantegna
The Dead Christ (Lamentation of Christ)
Andrea Mantegna
The theme of the Lamentation of Christ is common in medieval and Renaissance art, although this treatment, dating back to a subject known as the Anointing of Christ is unusual for the period. Most Lamentations show much more contact between the mourners and the body. Rich contrasts of light and shadow abound, infused by a profound sense of pathos. The realism and tragedy of the scene are enhanced by the violent perspective, which foreshortens and dramatizes the recumbent figure, stressing the anatomical details: in particular, Christ's thorax. The holes in Christ's hands and feet, as well as the faces of the two mourners, are portrayed without any concession to idealism or rhetoric. The sharply drawn drapery which covers the corpse contributes to the dramatic effect. The composition places the central focus of the image on Christ's genitals - an emphas