The Madonna Mourning the Dead Christ
The Madonna Mourning the Dead Christ
The Madonna Mourning the Dead Christ

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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This cast relief is closely based on an exquisite repoussé, or hammered, gold relief signed by the Venetian goldsmith Targone (in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu), his only certain work. Another gold version of about 1585 decorates the base of 'The Assumption', by Annibale Fontana (1540–1587), in Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan. In an unusual variant of the standard Pietà composition, the exposed and supine body of Christ is contrasted with the upright figure of Mary, the heavy folds of her drapery expressing the weight of her grief.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Birmingham

Title

The Madonna Mourning the Dead Christ

Date

modelled c.1582–1584 & probably cast late 16th C

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 28.3 x W 26.1 x D 1 cm

Accession number

50.4

Acquisition method

purchased from Sotheby's, 1950

Work type

Relief

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