The Lamentation
Object type: Painting
Department: European Paintings
Artist: Ambrosius Benson
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Lombardy (?), active by 1519–died 1550 Bruges
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Date: ca. 1520–25
Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Dimensions: Shaped top, 36 x 22 1/8 in. (91.4 x 56.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
Accession year: 1982
Tags: Sadness|Suffering|Mary Magdalene|Saint John the Evangelist|Lamentation|Death|Christ|Virgin Mary