Every Day a Painting for September 23, 2026

Lamentation (1580–1589)

Anonymous Artist; Jacopo Tintoretto

Oil on Canvas. Venetian, Renaissance.

Italian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century

Beneath the cross, the Virgin Mary holds the dead body of Jesus as mourners surround them. This scene was a well-established subject in Venetian painting by the second half of the 16th century. Typica…

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