The ''Lamentation over the Dead Christ'' is an incomplete bronze relief sculpture of , produced in his old age by

Donatello Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi ( – 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello ( ), was a Republic of Florence, Florentine sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Republic of Florence, Florence, he studied classical sculpture and use ...

and now in the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in London. It measures 32.1 by 41.7 cm. It is generally held to be a fragment or test piece for the bronze doors commissioned from the artist for

Siena Cathedral Siena Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. It was the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Siena, and ...

but never completed. It may be the bronze of the subject recorded as being in the cathedral's possession in 1659. Rolf C. Wirtz, ''Donatello'', Könemann, Cologne 1998. .

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