Page of Mourning over the Dead Christ by UNKNOWN MASTER, French in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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Mourning over the Dead Christ
1500-20
Stone
Muse du Louvre, Paris
In France the movement towards naturalism persisted throughout the fifteenth century. It is particularly marked in the large Entombment groups, so popular in the North. Yet, if these are life-like, there is nothing of the marked brutality of works accross the Rhine, and a certain Gallic lyricism pervades even these harsher representations.