The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Andrea Mantegna | c. 1480 Select Size:32" x 32" "Cutting the Stone" by Hieronymus

"Cutting the Stone" by Hieronymus Bosch is a satirical and enigmatic painting that critiques the quackery and ignorance of the late medieval period

offering both a tribute to the forgotten and a subtle indictment of the cost of war

Swirling with radiant angels arranged in concentric circles of light

Though their faces nearly touch

Inspired by Michelangelo’s Last Judgment

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ | Andrea Mantegna | c. 1480 Select Size:32" x 32" "Cutting the Stone" by HieronymusAbout the artwork: The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480) by Andrea Mantegna is one of the most striking and innovative works of the Italian Renaissance. The painting depicts the body of Christ laid out on a stone slab, viewed from an extreme foreshortened perspective that makes the viewer confront his wounds and mortality with unsettling immediacy. Christs head is slightly turned, softening the rigidity of death, while Mary and Saint John