The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Andrea Mantegna | c. 1480 Select Size:32" x 32" Though their faces nearly touch

Though their faces nearly touch

"Cutting the Stone" by Hieronymus Bosch is a satirical and enigmatic painting that critiques the quackery and ignorance of the late medieval period

symbolizing the consequences of unchecked sin and humanity’s failure to seek redemption

like the ghostly figures behind the priest

influenced by photography and his engineering background

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Andrea Mantegna | c. 1480 Select Size:32" x 32" Though their faces nearly touchAbout 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