Deposition | |
Other Title 1: | Lamentation over the Dead Christ |
Artist: | Giovanni Bellini |
Year: | 1515–16 |
Height Metric: | 444 |
Width Metric: | 312 |
Museum: | Gallerie dell'Accademia |
City: | Venice |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Deposition or Lamentation over the Dead Christ is a painting by Giovanni Bellini and his workshop, dating to 1515–16 and thus one of his last works. It measures 4.44 m by 3.12 m and is in oils on canvas. It was commissioned for the Santa Maria dei Servi church in Venice, which is now demolished; it is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in that city.[1]