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| Giovanni Bellini Pietà Martinengo 1505 oil on panel Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Parmigianino The Lamentation ca. 1520-24 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Gaudenzio Ferrari The Lamentation ca. 1527-29 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Pieter de Witte (Pietro Candido) The Lamentation with St Benedict and St Anthony Abbot ca. 1585-86 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giovanni Battista Fontana The Lamentation before 1587 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Annibale Carracci The Lamentation ca. 1597 drawing (study for engraving) Musée du Louvre |
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| Hans von Aachen The Lamentation ca. 1595-1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) The Lamentation (detail) ca. 1638-40 oil on canvas Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Louis Boullogne the Elder The Lamentation ca. 1660 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Annibale Carracci The Deposition with Saints ca. 1595 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Bernardino Nocchi after Antonio Canova The Deposition 1800 oil on canvas (grisaille) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cristóvão de Figueiredo The Entombment ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Domenico Campagnola The Entombment before 1564 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist The Entombment ca. 1590 oil on panel (cut down) Chiesa dei Santi Faustino e Giovita, Viterbo |
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| Palma il Giovane The Entombment before 1628 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo The Entombment before 1804 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Marcello Venusti after Michelangelo Pietà with Angels ca. 1550-70 oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio |
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| Pasquale Ottino Pietà with St John the Evangelist and the Magdalen before 1630 oil on black marble (pietra da paragone) Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Charles Poerson Study for Dead Christ in Pietà ca. 1637 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Tuscan Artist Pietà ca. 1550-1600 oil on canvas Propisitura di San Marcello Pistoiese |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini after Michelangelo Pietà with Angels before 1591 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Marco Bigio Pietà ca. 1535-40 oil on canvas Palazzo Chigi Zondadari a San Quirico d'Orcia |
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| Nicolò dell'Abate Pietà ca. 1552-58 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giovanni Bellini The Lamentation, with Martha, Joseph of Arimathea, the Virgin, the Magdalen, and St Philip Benizi ca. 1515 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
Grief
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy dead in silence like to death –
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning (ca. 1840)