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Mantegna lays the dead Christ before us in a startling, foreshortened view from the feet, the wounded soles thrust toward the viewer. The daring perspective and stony, sculptural body create an unflinching meditation on death. Few Renaissance images are so coolly radical.
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
- Datec. 1480
- MovementEarly Renaissance
- WherePinacoteca di Brera, Milan
- RegionItaly