Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels)
c. 1500
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 · 1457–1504
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...