This image, The Virgin mourning Christ was painted by Annibale Carracci between 1599 and 1600. The painting, which was made to be used at a church altar, reminded me a lot of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, Pieta, which also depicts the Virgin holding the dead body of Christ. That sculpture is exceptionally complex and emotional, and I enjoyed comparing the media of the two works: sculpture and painting. Like the sculpture, this painting also uses very simple and harmonious arrangement and the figures are all beautiful and clean, without gore or dramatic intensity. I do, however, find that the mood lighting in this painting adds a unique quality to the emotional faces of the figures, which is not found in the scultpure.
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