The Lamentation / Hans Baldung Grien

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Accession Number
1960/1.168
Title
The Lamentation
Artist Nationality
German
Artist Life Dates
1484/85-1545
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
Object Creation Date
1515-1517
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
France (nation)
Alsace (region)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
France (nation)
Creation Place 3
Alsace (region)
Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Inscription
Signed on block:
Dimensions
22.2 cm x 15.2 cm (8 3/4 in. x 6 in.)
Century
16th century
Primary Object Classification
Print
Physical Description
Three grief-striken figures lament over the body of a dead man lying on the ground before them. One of these figures, a robed woman who clasps her hands in agony, leans forward to peer into the face of the dead man, who is rendered with dramatic foreshortening. To the left of this woman sits a long-haired man wiping his eyes while another woman with wild unkempt hair seated next to him raises her arms in abject sorrow. Three nails and a pair of vessels sit in the immediate foreground next to the artist's initials "HGB."
Subject Matter
This woodcut print depicts the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene lamenting over the body of Christ at the foot of the cross. The Virgin, with her cowl drawn over her head, leans over Christ's body, while John and the Magdalene, wild with grief, sit behind her. The posts of the three crosses and a ladder as well as the feet of the two criminals executed with Christ appear behind this dramatic knot of figures. The nails driven through Christ's hands and feet sit prominently alongside two vessels in the foreground.
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Record
1960/1.168
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"The Lamentation; Hans Baldung Grien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1960-sl-1.168/1960_1.168.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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