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Related external works: Part of the same work group

Marco Zoppo: Mise au Tombeau, Pinsel und Feder in Braun auf Papier, 108 x 179 mm. Inv. Nr. RF 29484, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques, Cabinet des dessins, Paris

The Lamentation of Christ, ca. 1470?

Blatt: 148 x 177 mm

Physical Description: Brown ink, framing line with brown ink on all sides, on reddish-tinted paper, distance of chain lines (vertical) |29|21|34|36|

Inventory Number: 3476

Object Number: 3476 Z

Acquisition: Acquired in 1847

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Work

Zoppo was presumably Venice’s most important ‘humanist’ painter after Andrea Mantegna; moreover, he was an accomplished draughtsman. The Frankfurt work was originally in the Madonna Sketchbook produced around 1470. The scene has been staged in a spatially sophisticated and highly dramatic manner. The rigid, dead figure of Christ in the foreground is set off sharply against the expressively mourning apostles further back, the scene’s actual spectators. This contrast is also reflected in the manner of execution.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: The Lamentation of Christ

Draughtsman

Marco Zoppo

Verso: The Death of the Virgin

Period Produced

School

Renaissance

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Brown ink, framing line with brown ink on all sides, on reddish-tinted paper, distance of chain lines (vertical) |29|21|34|36|

Material

Technique

pen drawing

Geographic Reference

Upper Italian

Production Reason

composition study

Captions Added Later: Verso bezeichnet unten links mit den Notizen von Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (mit der Feder in Braun, stellenweise über schwarzem Stift, Lugt 3004): David Joris fecit | gebooren Delft 1470 | obit Basel 1556 | hoog 5 ½ | br. 7 (Lugt 3004); Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

Dreiberg [?, Fragment]

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: Public Domain

Acquisition: Acquired in 1847

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

depiction of a saint

Main Motif

Associated Persons and Institutions

Associated Source

Bibel, Neues Testament, Markus 15,42-47
Bibel, Neues Testament, Johannes 19,38-42
Bibel, Neues Testament, Matthäus 27,57-61
Bibel, Neues Testament, Markus 15,42-47
Bibel, Neues Testament, Lukas 23,50-56
Bibel, Neues Testament, Johannes 19,38-42

Iconclass

Primary

31E3 the corpse
31A236 lying figure
31D16 old man
42E32 niche-tomb, wall-tomb
42E111 shroud

Secondary

11G191 angel(s) represented as child(ren)
41B313 candlestick

Associative

73D72 the mourning over the dead Christ
73D7213 Christ's body on or in the grave
11F251 Mary weeping
11H(JOHN) the apostle John the Evangelist; possible attributes: book, cauldron, chalice with snake, eagle, palm, scroll