Best Pieta
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ is a painting by Andrea Mantegna, generally dated to the late fifteenth century, and now held by the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. It presents Christ's body from near the feet in an unusually severe foreshortened view, with the Virgin, Saint John, and a mourner g...
The Pieta of Avignon, painted around the middle of the fifteenth century, is a French panel painting now in the Louvre. It shows the dead Christ laid across the Virgin's knees, accompanied by Saint John, Mary Magdalene, and a kneeling donor against a stark gold background. Often attributed to Enguer...
Annibale Carracci's Pietà is an oil-on-canvas altarpiece painted around 1600 and now in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. It shows the Virgin supporting the dead Christ, accompanied by angels, in a concentrated devotional composition. Carracci combines carefully structured, classicall...
Devotional panel by Dieric Bouts depicting the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, notable for the Flemish master's restrained emotional expression and elongated, melancholy figures.
