''Lamentation of Christ'' (also known as ''Glimm Lamentation'') is an
oil-on-panel
A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together. Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, panel painting was the normal method, when not paint ...
painting of the common subject of the
Lamentation of Christ by the German Renaissance artist
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
, executed around 1500 and now in the
Alte Pinakothek of
Munich, Germany.
The work was commissioned by goldsmith Jakob Glimm as a memorial of his first wife, Margaret Holzmann, who had died in 1500. The removal of later re-painting in 1924 showed the original figures of the donors (Glimm and his three sons) and of the dead woman, depicted in far smaller proportions than the religious characters.
Description
The painting shows the dead Jesus, held by
Joseph of Arimathea and surrounded by the Pious Women, including an aged and distraught
Mary. In the right part are three standing characters depicted on a diagonal line: from top,
St. John the Evangelist
John the Evangelist ( grc-gre, Ἰωάννης, Iōánnēs; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ; ar, يوحنا الإنجيلي, la, Ioannes, he, יוחנן cop, ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ) is the name traditionally given t ...
,
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to crucifixion of Jesus, his cru ...
, and
Nicodemus, the last two holding vases which contained balms used to prepare the corpse for the burial.
See also
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''Lamentation of Christ'' (Dürer, Nuremberg)
References
Sources
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Paintings by Albrecht Dürer
1500 paintings
Collection of the Alte Pinakothek
Paintings of the Virgin Mary
Paintings about death
Paintings depicting Mary Magdalene
Dürer, Munich