Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Donatello)

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Lamentation of Christ is an incomplete c.1457-1459 bronze relief sculpture, produced in his old age by Donatello and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It measures 33.5 by 41.5 cm.[1]

It is generally held to be a fragment or test piece for the bronze doors commissioned from the artist for Siena Cathedral but never completed. It may be the bronze of the subject recorded as owned by the cathedral in 1659.[2]


References

  1. ^ "Catalogue entry".
  2. ^ (in Italian) Rolf C. Wirtz, Donatello, Könemann, Colonia 1998. ISBN 3-8290-4546-8.