# Lamentation of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 260 x 193 cm ## Commentary Lamentation of Christ 1516 Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 260 x 193 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Sebastiano del Piombo trained in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini in Venice, where he was a contemporary of Giorgione. In around 1510 he moved to Rome, and apart from occasional trips away spent the rest of his life there. He brought to Roman art the new Venetian pictorial language, sense of colour and interpretation of the classical idiom. Sebastiano worked with Michelangelo, from whom he took his use of drawing as the basis of his compositional structure, as well as the monumental conception of his figures. He achieved great fame in Rome for his paintings, which expressed a classicism different to that of Raphael. This painting shows the influence of Michelangelo. ## Related artworks - [A Young Roman Woman]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Christ Carrying the Cross]() - [Christ Descends into Limbo]() - [Death of Adonis]() - [Flagellation of Christ]() - [Holy Family with a Donor and the Infant St John \(recto\)]() - [Lamentation of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Martyrdom of St Agatha]() - [Pietà]() - [Polyphemus]() - [Pope Clement VII]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()