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A Time for Despair: Lamentation Over the Dead Christ in Bologna

What does despair look like? In 1463, Niccolò dell’Arca’s answer was this: The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ is tucked into a side chapel inside the Church of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna. The terracotta figures are life sized and, while no one is sure of the original arrangement, they were clearly meant to […]