# The Lamentation over the Body of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLINI, Giovanni]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 73 x 119 cm ## Commentary The Lamentation over the Body of Christ c. 1500 Tempera on wood, 73 x 119 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Bellini and his workshop executed several variants of the subject Lamentation over the Dead Christ.The rare chiaroscuro of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a gift made by Alvise Mocenigo to the Grand-duke of Tuscany is one of them. This is a more crowded composition than the previous "imago pietatis", in which the very isolation of the figures becomes a diaphragm that separates the spectator from the drama. Here the prominent knees of Christ, and his abrupt foreshortening sharply break this ideal wall and bring the sacred group closer to, and therefore in more immediate communication with, those worshipping. Painted in grisaille and, notwithstanding the contrary opinion of some, to be considered as a finished work. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Angel Announcing \(detail\)]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece]() - [Blessing Christ]() - [Bust of a Man]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()