# The Dead Christ with Two Angels [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PALMA GIOVANE]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 65 x 112 cm ## Commentary The Dead Christ with Two Angels c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 65 x 112 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest In this painting the angels hold the body of Christ from the side, an arrangement customary ever since Giovanni Bellini. The motif of the left arm, twisted anteriorly, is taken from the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/pieta/pieta\_.html'\)" HREF="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/pieta/pieta\_.html">Pietà of Michelangelo,</A> left incomplete in 1553, that Palma had seen in Rome and that later was taken to the Cathedral in Florence. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai \(detail\)]() - [Amusements of the Prodigal Son]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(1\)]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(2\)]() - [Apostles at the Virgin's Tomb]() - [David and Achimelech]() - [Doge Francesco Venier Presents the Subject Cities to Venice]() - [Doge Pietro Loredan Beseeching the Virgin]() - [Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Paolo Veronese]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi \(detail\)]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()