Lamentation over the Dead Christ

ca. 1590

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Artwork Date ca. 1590

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Gilt bronze and silvered bronze with tooling, decorative stamping with a die, and inlaid silver studs

Dimensions Overall: 7 7/8 × 6 × 1/4 inches (20 × 15.2 × 0.6 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 24.77

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1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Burroughs, C.H. "Italian XV and XVI Century Plaquettes," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 3 (1924): pp. 29-30 (ill.).

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W.R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, April 6-May 17, 1959, no. 23.

Rossi, F. Plachette Sec. XV - XIX. Musei Civici di Brescia, Vicenza, 1974, no. 91, (fig. 56).

Wixom, W.D. Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio, 1975, no. 73 [with list of related versions].

Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts, October 26, 1982-January 2, 1983.

Geber, A., "Name Inscriptions: Solution or Problem?" Studies in the History of Art, 22, Italian Plaquettes. The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1989.

Banzato, D. & F. Pelligrini. Bronzi e Placchette dei Muesi Civici di Padova. Padua, 1989, pp. 123-124, no. 117.

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 10 (ill.).

Darr, A. P. and P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.], Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 227.

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Italian, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, ca. 1590, gilt bronze and silvered bronze with tooling, decorative stamping with a die, and inlaid silver studs. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.77.