Dead Christ

Created: first half of the 17th c.

Material, technology: oil, canvas

Size: 95.3 x 95.5 cm

Description: There are no additional motifs - lamenting angels, signs of the passion - in this puritanic composition of a highly reserved tone: the deserted body, with bronze hues at places, is shown laid out on a tawny sheet in a daring perspective. The sensitively executed details and the easy brushwork allude to a lithe-handed painter, who was perhaps a member of the Emilian or Roman school where Andrea Mantegna’s late "Dead Christ" (Milan, Brera), a picture negotiating the extremes of human representation, also attracted the attention of painters of the baroque.