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The Lamentation of Christ
Here the artist ‘zoomed in’ on the faces of the dead Christ and his grieving disciples. The painting is thus both intimate and confrontational. This made it easier for believers to identify with Christ’s suffering and the Virgin’s sorrow. The man on the right holding the nails from the cross is Nicodemus; it is probably also a portrait of the person who commissioned the painting.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73D721
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1510 - c.1515
Place-Time
- first quarter 16th century
Places
- Brussels
- Brussel
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.4622
Provenance
- …; from the dealer E.L. van Gelder, The Hague, as Anonymous, 15th century, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. 172), 1875; transferred to the museum, as school of Rogier van der Weyden, 1885
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8180
- SK-A-856
Extent
- height 35.5 cm
- width 42.9 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:43.427Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:18.712Z