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Giotto's fresco shows mourners gathered around the dead Christ with a raw, earthly grief that broke from flat medieval convention. The huddled figures, the bare diagonal hillside and even the wailing angels give the scene real weight. It is a founding moment of Western naturalistic painting.
Lamentation of Christ
- Datec. 1305
- MovementProto-Renaissance
- WhereScrovegni Chapel, Padua
- RegionItaly