Prof. Tom Henry discusses Signorelli’s ‘Lamentation over the Dead Christ’ on RAI 3 (Italian State Radio)

On Sunday 14 February 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.

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.

 

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