The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Andrea Mantegna | c. 1480 Select Size:24" x 24" The reclining figure of the

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The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Andrea Mantegna | c. 1480 Select Size:24" x 24" The reclining figure of theAbout the artwork: The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480) by Andrea Mantegna is one of the most striking and innovative works of the Italian Renaissance. The painting depicts the body of Christ laid out on a stone slab, viewed from an extreme foreshortened perspective that makes the viewer confront his wounds and mortality with unsettling immediacy. Christs head is slightly turned, softening the rigidity of death, while Mary and Saint John