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The Lamentation

1603
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 640
The surface of this pristinely preserved painting has an enamel-like finish and jewellike depth of color. It was painted by Domenichino a year after he moved from his native Bologna to Rome. The composition repeats that of a large altarpiece designed by Annibale Carracci for the Church of San Francesco a Ripa, Rome. Annibale greatly admired the talent of his young assistant, who in this painting outstripped his elder in creating a mood of restrained but poignant grief. The turbaned figure of Joseph of Arimathea with an urn was Domenichino’s personal interpolation into Annibale’s composition.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Lamentation
  • Artist: Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, Bologna 1581–1641 Naples)
  • Date: 1603
  • Medium: Oil on copper
  • Dimensions: 20 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (53 x 37.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, European Paintings Funds and funds from various donors; Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson, and The Reed Foundation Gifts; Gwynne Andrews Fund; Elaine Rosenberg Gift; The Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection, Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest; Marquand Fund; Museum Purchase Fund; Peter Tcherepnine Gift; The Camille M. Lownds Fund; Stephenson Family Foundation Gift; Ruth and Victoria Blumka Fund; Earl Kiely Bequest; and The Morse G. Dial Foundation, 2005 CINOA Prize and Diane Carol Brandt Gifts, 2008
  • Object Number: 2008.72
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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