The Lamentation 1603 Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) Italian The surface of this pristinely preserved painting has an enamel-like finish and jewel-like depth of color. It was painted by Domenichino a year after he moved from his native Bologna to Rome. The composition repeats that of a large altarpiece designed by Annibale Carracci for the church of San Francesco a Ripa, Rome (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris). Annibale greatly admired the talent of his young assistant, who in this picture outstripped his master in creating a mood of restrained but poignant grief. The turbaned figure of Josep
The Lamentation 1603 Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) Italian The surface of this pristinely preserved painting has an enamel-like finish and jewel-like depth of color. It was painted by Domenichino a year after he moved from his native Bologna to Rome. The composition repeats that of a large altarpiece designed by Annibale Carracci for the church of San Francesco a Ripa, Rome (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris). Annibale greatly admired the talent of his young assistant, who in this picture outstripped his master in creating a mood of restrained but poignant grief. The turbaned figure of Joseph of Arimathea with an urn was Domenichino's personal interpolation into Annibale’s The Lamentation 439553
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