Lamentation by Giotto, 1305
The whole chapel this sits in was paid for by a banker's son — supposedly to make up for the money his father made lending at interest, which the Church counted as a sin at the time. It's one panel out of a whole wall of them telling the story in order, so it was never meant to be looked at on its own.
Erisava: That sky looks like a hung-up backdrop, and the crying still gets me anyway. What's your take?
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The bare tree in the corner is the bit that stayed with me afterwards.