Pietà
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A dead man's right hand lies on his mother's shoulder, almost transparent through the blue of her mantle. No Gospel puts the dead Christ in Mary's lap. This is the Imago Pietatis, and Lippi paints the corpse coming back to life.
The face has begun to animate; the hair is the one note of colour left. Behind them, black rock, alluding to Joseph of Arimathea's tomb. Mary's face carries something closer to victory than grief; John the Evangelist's sorrow stays inward, head bowed.
The left hand is still curled. Those fingers have not got their life back yet.
Sources: e-venise.com/musees-milan/poldi-pezzoli/filippo-lippi-la-pieta-poldi-pezzoli-milan.html; frammentiarte.it/2016/13-pieta/ · e-venise.com and frammentiarte.it panel descriptions · frammentiarte.it/2016/13-pieta/, read against Panofsky's 'Imago Pietatis' (1927) pairing of Schmerzensmann and Maria Mediatrix · Google Arts & Culture museum-partner caption: "a refined work created for private devotion" · e-venise.com, Museo Poldi Pezzoli collection notice, 'Filippo Lippi — La Pietà'
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,006 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.