GIOTTO di Bondone
(b. 1267, Vespignano, d. 1337, Firenze)

No. 36 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 20. Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)

1304-06
Fresco, 200 x 185 cm
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

With varied gestures, indicating individual degrees of sorrow, the women and John approach the body of Christ. Their gestures seem to pave the way for the most intense impression of grief, the embrace and gaze of the mother. At the same time, the gestures of the women and of the disciples, which are reflected once more by the angels, appear like a development of the mother's sorrow, which is concentrated on the moment of the most intimate encounter.




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