'Compianto sul Cristo morto' (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) by Niccolò dell’Arca from marys Watch Video
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Description: The sculptural group of the 'Compianto sul Cristo morto' ('Lamentation over the Dead Christ') by Niccolò dell’Arca is located in the main chapel of the Church of Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna. nnThis dramatic depiction of sorrow and death was commissioned by the Battuti Bianchi around 1463 and consists of a group of life-sized figures – the Madonna and the Three Marys, St John the Apostle and Joseph of Arimathea – weeping over the dead body of Christ, which is laid out between them read
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