The ''Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels)'' is a 1437–1439 tempera on panel painting by

Filippo Lippi Filippo Lippi ( – 8 October 1469), also known as Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento (15th century) and a Carmelite Priest. Biography Lippi was born in Florence in 1406 to Tommaso, a butcher, and his wife. He was orp ...

, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. It probably formed part of a small altarpiece for private devotion and draws on the low relief of the sculpture style of

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 ...

. It is theorised that the work was the painting Giorgio Vasari mentions as Lippi produced for Cosimo the Elder as a gift for Pope Eugene IV, who was then living in

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{{15C-painting-stub Paintings in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli Paintings by Filippo Lippi Paintings of the Pietà Paintings of John the Apostle 1439 paintings