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"Lamentation of Christ" by Mantegna, reimagined. The scene shows Christ dead, lying on a marble slab almost perpendicular to the viewer, in one of the most violent foreshortened views in the history of painting. This was a common theme in the Renaissance (the lamentation over the dead Christ, with precedents dating back to Giotto), but never before had the definitive nature of death been reflected in such a resounding way. It became famous for its appearance in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Mamma Roma (1962). https://rodeo.club/post/7419809371519627264

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