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A "Pieta," by C. Crivelli

Date

1858

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

British

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Photograph of "Pietà," part of the Demidoff Altarpiece painted by Carlo Crivelli. The painting depicts three saintly figures, including the Virgin Mary, as they mourn the death of Christ. Christ himself is positioned in the center of the image as if his body is about to be lowered into a sarcophagus.

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