Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels)

Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels) by Filippino Lippi

Medium

oil (and possibly tempera) on panel

Dimensions

painted surface: 17.5 x 33.3 cm (6 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.) support: 19 x 34.8 cm (7 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.) framed: 31 x 46.2 x 4 cm (12 3/16 x 18 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CIS-R

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1952.5.86

About the Artist

Filippino Lippi · 14571504

Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...

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