The Lamentation of Christ
around 1513–1520 | Giovan Gerolamo Savoldo
Belonging to the earliest preserved works of Savoldo, this tableau was probably created for the church of Santa Maria dell‘Orto in Venice. Throughout his life Savoldo investigated the most diverse optical phenomena and was considered the “philosopher” among painters. His efforts to isolate individual observations from nature in order to experiment with them in his painting can be seen here in details such as the greygreen, distorted face of Christ or the hand with the stigmata on it extended as it were to the viewer.
Belonging to the earliest preserved works of Savoldo, this tableau was probably created for the church of Santa Maria dell‘Orto in Venice. Throughout his life Savoldo investigated the most diverse optical phenomena and was considered the “philosopher” among painters. His efforts to isolate individual observations from nature in order to experiment with them in his painting can be seen here in details such as the greygreen, distorted face of Christ or the hand with the stigmata on it extended as it were to the viewer.
Artist:
Giovan Gerolamo Savoldo (um 1480/1485 Brescia - nach 1548 Venedig) DNB
Time:
around 1513–1520
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Lombard
Material/technology:
Poplar wood
Dimensions:
allseitig beschnitten: cut on all sides: 72,5 x 118,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 1619
Provenance
S. Maria dell' Orto, Venice; 1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; Coll. Leopold Wilhelm