Lamentation of Christ by Andrea Mantegna, 1483
The story goes that he kept this one — it was still in his studio when he died, and his sons sold it off to clear what he owed. No one's settled on when he painted it either; the guesses spread across a couple of decades.
Erisava: He's painted like an actual corpse. Nothing softened, nothing golden. What's your take?
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