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The Lamentation of Christ
Also titled Bewening van Christus
Colijn de Coter (ca. –1522)
c. 1510 - c. 1515
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 35.5 cm x width 42.9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Here the artist ‘zoomed in’ on the faces of the dead Christ and his grieving disciples. The painting is thus both intimate and confrontational. This made it easier for believers to identify with Christ’s suffering and the Virgin’s sorrow. The man on the right holding the nails from the cross is Nicodemus; it is probably also a portrait of the person who commissioned the painting.
