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Mourning the Dead Christ

1522 · Galleria Borghese, Rome

religious

The paintings of the Ferrarese Renaissance share a particularly sensitive observation of nature and the expressive features of the landscape, which play a role in the picture, as in the dramatic Mourning the Dead Christ by Ortolano.

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Mourning the Dead Christ

About the Artist

Ortolano

1487 – 1524

Italian painter of the Ferrarese school, original name Giovanni Battista Benvenuti. He was taught by Lorenzo Costa but came under the influence of both the Venetian style of the Bellini and the classicism of Raphael. His oeuvre was first isolated from those of Ercole Grandi and Garofalo by Longhi in 1934.

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