Page of Pietà by VERONESE, Paolo in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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Pietà
1576-82
Oil on canvas, 147 x 115 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
The painting was commissioned for the church Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. It is the best version of the surviving three- and four-figure paintings depicting the Lamentation of Christ. Recent X-ray investigations revealed a second angel at the left side of Mary.