Thursday, April 26, 2007

la mélancolie et le christ mort

hans holbein the body of the dead christ in the tomb 1521

andrea mantegna the lamentation over the dead christ c. 1490


dostoyevsky said after viewing hans holbein's the body of the dead christ in the tomb, one might lose their faith and proceeded to write the idiot. that holbein's painting was so visceral then (and still is), is quite wonderful.
paintings of - beauty, melancholia, love and otherworldliness.


giovanni bellini dead christ supported by the madonna and st john (pietà) 1455

giovanni bellini dead christ in the sepulchre (pietà) c. 1460

giovanni bellini dead christ supported by the madonna and st john (pietà) 1460

giovanni bellini dead christ supported by angels (pietà) c. 1474

giovanni bellini pietà 1505

sandro botticelli lamentation over the dead christ with saints c. 1490

vittore carpaccio the dead christ c. 1520

enguerrand charonton pietà de villeneuve-lès-avignon (detail) c. 1460

petrus christus the lamentation 1455-60

albrecht durer lamentation for christ 1500-03

albrecht durer lamentation for the dead christ 1495-98

albrecht durer deposition (no. 13) 1512

jean fouquet pietà c. 1445

hugo van der goes deposition diptych (small deposition, left wing) c. 1480

hans memling the virgin showing the man of sorrows 1475 or 1479

antonello da messina the dead christ supported by an angel 1475-78

luis de morales pietà 1560s

luca signorelli lamentation over the dead christ (detail) 1502

michel sittow pietà c. 1500

rogier van der weyden joseph of arimathea supporting the dead christ 1435