Tag: body

San Giorgio e il drago (c.1555)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 158.3 × 100.5 cm National Gallery, London Saint George plunges his lance into the jaws of the dragon which, according to legend, inhabited the…

Deposizione di Cristo nel sepolcro (c.1500-1501)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Deposizione di Cristo nel sepolcro (The Entombment, or Christ being carried to his Tomb) c.1500–1501 Oil on wood, 161.7 × 149.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of perhaps only three surviving panel paintings by the great Florentine…

La diligence dans la neige (1860)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La diligence dans la neige (The Diligence in the Snow) 1860 Oil on canvas, 137.2 × 199.1 cm National Gallery, London The high viewpoint in this painting opens up the prospect of the vast distance, heightening its very…

Meditazione sulla passione (c.1490)

Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Meditazione sulla passione (The Meditation on the Passion) c.1490 Oil and tempera on wood, 66.5 × 84.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This remarkable picture is a meditation on death and resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed…

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1640)

Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Lamentation over the Dead Christ c.1640 Oil on canvas, 115.5 × 207.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Christ’s dead body is laid out across the entrance to a cave, his head resting on Mary’s…

Pietà (early 1620s)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Pietà (The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) early 1620s Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 181 cm National Gallery, London Ribera captures the moment when Christ’s lifeless body is laid out after it has been brought down from the…

Compianto sul Cristo morto (1495)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) 1495 Oil on wood, 220 x 195 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Inscription: PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT A.D. MCCCCLXXXXV The body of Christ taken down from the cross is lying over…

Pietà con le tre Marie (c.1604)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Pietà con le tre Marie (The Dead Christ Mourned, The Three Maries) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 92.8 x 103.2 cm National Gallery, London This is perhaps the most poignant image in the National Gallery’s collection of the pietà…

Copie d’après Le Titien (c.1864)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie d’après Le Titien (Study after Titian’s Entombment of Christ) c.1864 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 20 x 29.5 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo c.1520 Musée du Louvre, Paris  …