Corpse of Christ | |
Artist: | Annibale Carracci |
Year: | 1583–1585 |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 70.7 |
Width Metric: | 88.8 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | Stuttgart |
Museum: | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
The Corpse of Christ is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Annibale Carracci, dating to c. 1583-1585 and housed in the Staatsgalerie of Stuttgart, Germany.
The work, dating to Carracci's early career, is a manifest homage to Andrea Mantegna's Dead Christ, which he had perhaps seen in the Aldobrandini collection. Christ is portrayed lying in a contorted position, seen from his feet. Differently from Mantegna, Carracci did not paint the mourners at the side, and adopted a more realistic depiction of the body.