Lamentation over the Dead Christ with the saints Girolamo, Pietro and Paolo
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
Max Resolution:2000×1373 PX
Title:Lamentation over the Dead Christ with the saints Girolamo, Pietro and Paolo
Artists:Sandro Botticelli
Date:c.1490 - c.1492
Style:Early Renaissance
Genre:religious painting
Location:Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Dimensions:140×207 cm
Copyright:Public domain
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, is a painting of the common subject of the Lamentation of Christ by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished around 1490–1492. It is now in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich.
The portrait shows the inert body of Christ surrounded by the Virgin, St. Peter, and Mary Magdalene, St. John the Evangelist, St. Jerome and St. Paul.
The pathetic expressions of the characters were a novelty in Botticelli's art: under the spiritual influence of Savonarola's preachings in Florence, which began around the time the work was executed, he started in fact to abandon the allegoric inspiration that had made him a favourite of the Medici court in favour of more intimate and painstaking religious reflection.