# Christ on the Cold Stone [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOSSART, Jan]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 112 x 84 cm ## Commentary Christ on the Cold Stone c. 1530 Oil on panel, 112 x 84 cm Real Colegio del Corpus Christi, Valencia This painting is also known as the Man of Sorrows. Christ is depicted here as the melancholy hero whose taut musculature and profoundly distraught expression reveal the depth of his anguish. The physical bulk of the figure and the exaggerated modeling of his muscular form led some early on to identify him as Samson. Gossart did not separate biblical from mythological subject matter in his continuing development of the sculptural form of the body as a way to convey meaning. The common source for several of the male figures in his late paintings was the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/h/heemsker/1/z\_belved.html'\)" href="/html/h/heemsker/1/z\_belved.html">Belvedere Torso.</a> Gossart's completion of the fragment may have been inspired by Marcantonio Raimondi's signed and dated engraving, the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/raimondi/mars.html'\)" href="/html/r/raimondi/mars.html">Mars, Venus, and Eros</a> of 1508. In the unimpeded view and detailed articulation of the musculature of the torsos, Gossart's Christ and Raimondi's Mars bear a striking resemblance. ## Related artworks - [A Grotesque with Two Sirens]() - [A Man Holding a Glove]() - [A Reliquary]() - [A Women's Bath]() - [Adam Accuses Eve before God]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()