Title of Artwork: “The Mourning of the Dead Christ (Deposition)”
Artwork by Pietro Perugino
Year Created 1495
Summary of The Mourning of the Dead Christ (Deposition)
An Italian Renaissance artist, Pietro Perugino, painted The Lamentation over the Dead Christ in 1495, and it now resides in the Galleria Palatina of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.
All About The Mourning of the Dead Christ (Deposition)
Convent of Santa Chiara, a convent in Florence, ordered this painting. The work was highly regarded by its contemporaries, inspiring paintings such as Fra Bartolomeo’s Pieta and Andrea del Sarto’s Luco Pieta, both in the same collection.
It was moved to Paris (1799) during Napoleon’s invasion of Italy and remained there until 1814. It was moved to Palazzo Pitti in 1834 from the Gallerie dell’Accademia, where it had been initially housed.
Due to Perugino’s signature style of incorporating numerous figures and attitudes into a contemplative scene, the painting serves as a reminder of the importance of harmony and beauty in religious contemplation.
Foreground: The scene of the Lamentation, with a lake and a fortified city in the background, occupies the lower half of the painting. One of the Pious Women, Nicodemus, and Joseph of Arimathea are all holding Jesus’ body, which is draped in a white shroud. The latter wears a flower-adorned hat.
It appears that the Virgin Mary is cradling one of Jesus’s arms as she cries out for him. It’s Mary Magdalene in the middle of the ideal triangle, with Joseph and Nicodemus on either side, forming the other two vertexes. It is depicted as a two-sided scene, with a Pious Woman (on the left) and John the Apostle (on the right).
Information Citations
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