The Lamentation over the Dead Christ* is a 1470s painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna.
It portrays the body of Christ supine on a marble slab. He is watched over by the Virgin Mary, St. John and somebody in the upper left hand corner just behind Virgin Mary who are crying for his death.


Smart History. Art History Conversation. Beth Harris, Isaac Peterson, Steven Zucker.
Lecture on Lamentation over the Dead Christ. 2009.

* Since the painting had different titles during the centuries and naming it is an important part of my research, for the purpose of this paper I will refer to the painting as Lamentation over the Dead Christ or just Dead Christ.
history of italian renaissance art || the life of an object of art || silvia minguzzi || spring 2012