Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin 1475 Oil and gold leaf on wood panel, 27.4 × 19.9 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin (1475)
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Gesù che porta la croce (c.1565)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Gesù che porta la croce (Carrying of the Cross) c.1565 Oil on canvas, 67 x 77 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Renaissance painting abounds with representations of Christ bearing the cross on the road to Calvary, either as an isolated…
Le lacrime di San Pietro (c.1612-1613)
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Le lacrime di San Pietro (The Tears of Saint Peter) c.1612–1613 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Spanish by birth, Ribera moved to Italy when he was fourteen or fifteen. He…
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…
Madonna col Bambino e i santi Girolamo e Nicola da Tolentino (c.1522)
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Girolamo e Nicola da Tolentino (Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino) c.1522 Oil on canvas, 94.3 x 77.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Compare: Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557)…
Madonna col Bambino e santi (1522)
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…
Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (1470-1474)
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) 1470–1474 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Le Christ mort et les anges (1864)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Christ mort et les anges (The Dead Christ with Angels) 1864 Oil on canvas, 179.4 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet identified the source for this painting, the first of several religious…
Vir dolorum (c.1500)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Vir dolorum (Christ Crowned with Thorns Blessing) c.1500 Tempera on panel, 47.6 x 32.3 cm Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Arrived at the Carrara Academy by bequest of Giovanni Morelli, like the other two paintings by Sandro Botticelli exhibited on…
Casa de Nazareth (c.1640)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Casa de Nazareth (Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 165 x 218.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Stories of Christ’s childhood and adolescence became increasingly popular during the Counter-Reformation…