The Meditation on the Passion
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The throne the dead Christ is laid on is broken. The two men flanking him are not mourners but readers: Job on the left, seated on a block of pseudo-Hebrew, and Jerome on the right, who wrote the commentary on Job. The landscape is barren on one side and green on the other. A bird climbs out of the top of the picture, the soul leaving. Carpaccio staged a meditation rather than an event — the seat of judgment collapsed, and Job's question asked over the body.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Meditation on the Passion', accession 11.118; read 2026-08-27. · Atara Moscovich, 'The Lion and the Wisdom - The Multiple Meanings of the Lion as One of the Keys for Deciphering Vittore Carpaccio's Meditation on the Passion', Religions 10, no. 5 (2019): art. 344, DOI 10.3390/rel10050344; open access, read 2026-08-27.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,833 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.