Title: The Lamentation
Object type: Painting
Date: ca. 1520–25
Artist:  Ambrosius Benson 
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Lombardy (?), active by 1519–died 1550 Bruges
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Artist role: Artist
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
Department: European Paintings
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sadness, term: Suffering, term: Christ, term: Mary Magdalene, term: Saint John the Evangelist, term: Virgin Mary, term: Lamentation, term: Death