Friday, August 2, 2024

Murky Mournings

Bernardo Cavallino
The Way to Calvary
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Pedro Orrente
The Crucifixion
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Anonymous Italian Artist
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1580-1620
oil on slate
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Johann Wenzel Bergl
Descent from the Cross
1760
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Santi di Tito
The Lamentation, with Donor
1593
oil on panel
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

Bertholet Flémal
The Lamentation
ca. 1660-70
oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Annibale Carracci
The Lamentation
1585
oil on panel
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Denys Calvaert
Pietà
ca. 1595
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Sisto Badalocchio
The Deposition
ca. 1610
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Francesco Francia (Francesco Raibolini)
The Deposition
1515
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Jacopo da Empoli (Jacopo Chimenti)
The Deposition
ca. 1590
oil on panel
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet
The Deposition
1714
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Anonymous Italian Artist
The Entombment
ca. 1500-1525
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daniel Seiter
Dead Christ with Angels
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Nicolas Tournier
Christ carried to the Tomb
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Alessandro Turchi (l'Orbetto)
Dead Christ mourned by the Magdalen and Angels
ca. 1616-17
oil on slate
Galleria Borghese, Rome

from Lines written in Dejection

When have I last looked on 
The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
The holy centaurs of the hills are vanished;
I have nothing but the embittered sun . . . 

– W.B. Yeats (1919)