''Lamentation over the Dead Christ'' is an oil painting on canvas of by

Bramantino Bartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino ( – ), was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan. Biography He was born in Milan, the son of Alberto Suardi, but his biography remains unclear, and was long complicated ...

, painted for the church of San Barnaba in Milan. The work was acquired by the Werner family in 1985 and now in the

Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco The Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco is an art gallery in the museum complex of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, northern Italy. History Inaugurated in 1878, the gallery displays over 230 artworks, which include masterpieces by Titian, Andrea Ma ...

in the same city. AA.VV., ''La Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco a Milano'', Skira, Milano 2005. A (possibly autograph) copy is now in a private collection. The painting shows the influence of Roman artists such as Mantegna which Bramantino had picked up during his stay in Rome, especially in its use of perspective. As in his ''

Palazzo della Ragione Madonna The Palazzo della Ragione Madonna is a fragment of a fresco of by Bramantino, originally on the façade of the Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, and now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in the same city. Due to a reference by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo it wa ...

'' and the ''

Madonna and Child with Eight Saints ''Madonna and Child with Eight Saints'' is an oil painting on canvas of by Bramantino, originally in the church of Santa Maria del Giardino in Milan and now in the Contini Bonacossi collection at the Uffizi in Florence. It belongs to the ''sacr ...

'', he also uses several light sources, showing the influence of the recent ''

Last Supper Image:The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - High Resolution 32x16.jpg, 400px, alt=''The Last Supper'' by Leonardo da Vinci - Clickable Image, Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, ...

'' by

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

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