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The Lamentation of Christ
c. 1617 · oil on panel · Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA)
For Good Friday
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image 17.1×24 in on a 18×24 in sheet
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Straw lies on the stone under Christ's body, and one pierced hand hangs down into it. An old bearded man takes His weight from behind; a young man lifts the shroud from His face, and Our Lady, veiled, holds its edge and looks up with wet eyes. Lynn F. Jacobs reads the straw as a grain symbolic of the bread of the Mass. The bread of the altar and the Body lie on one stone. Jan Michielsen died on 20 June 1617, and his widow, Maria Maes, ordered the triptych for his grave in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp; the wings, Jacobs notes, carry their name saints, and on the left one the Christ Child stands in the manner of the Host on a cloth-covered altar. Scans made at the KMSKA show that Rubens first painted Christ more covered. The painter uncovered Him.
Sources: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, inv. 300 · Lynn F. Jacobs, "Rubens and the Northern Past: The Michielsen Triptych and the Thresholds of Modernity," The Art Bulletin 91, no. 3 (2009) · J. Richard Judson, The Passion of Christ, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard VI (Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2000) · the conservation — yellowed varnish removed, and scans showing Rubens changed the composition, Christ having initially been more covered