Erisava Staff Jul 23

Lamentation of Christ by Andrea Mantegna, 1483

Content Warning

Nudity · Disturbing imagery

Lamentation of Christ

Pinacoteca di Brera · wikidata.org

Public domain

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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