On Sunday 14 February Professor Tom Henry discussed Luca Signorelli’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ in Cortona on RAI 3 (Italian state radio) in a series entitled the Museo Nazionale. Links follow below (n.b. this programme is in Italian). The short English summary is that this picture, in which the figure of Christ may have been based on the artist’s drawing after his adult son, assumed special importance to Signorelli after his son’s death later that year.
The programme
http://www.museoradio3.rai.it/dl/portali/site/page/Page-efbb04ef-63af-4921-9f47-50dbbae42aeb.html
And the podcast
http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/media/ContentItem-92095eac-d754-4147-9777-ae55ee451c25.html