One of the most arresting images in Christian art in my opinion, this is the "Lamentation over the Dead Christ" by Andrea Mantegna. Painted in about 1490, it hangs in the wonderful Brera Gallery in Milan, where I saw it in 2010. It is one of those pictures where reproductions do not really prepare you for the real thing. With very bold foreshortening Mantegna invites us to come up so very close to the dead Christ, who today lies in the tomb.
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