# The Pietà \(Mary Lamenting the Dead Christ\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BACICCIO]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 183 x 116 cm ## Commentary The canvas is identifiable as the "Dead Christ in the arms of the weeping Virgin with two little angels", for which the painter received payment on May 25, 1667. The painting was carried out for Cardinal Flavio Chigi, along with another canvas of the Assumption of the Virgin. It is a fundamental work for the career of Gaulli, and looks back to the famous Pietà of Annibale Carracci. Gaulli, however, translates the carracciesque language to achieve one of the highest examples of "baroque classicism". His synthesis also shows the influence of Van Dyck's art. ## Related artworks - [A Blessed Abbes Receiving the Host from the Hands of Christ]() - [Adoration of the Name of Jesus]() - [Apotheosis of St Ignatius]() - [Apotheosis of the Franciscan Order]() - [Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici]() - [Cupola decoration]() - [Holy Family with the Young St John the Baptist and St Elizabeth]() - [Nave vault]() - [Nave vault]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of Gian Lorenzo Bernini]() - [St John the Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()