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The Meditation on the Passion  1490

by Vittore Carpaccio

This remarkable picture is a meditation on Death and Resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed on a broken throne inscribed in pseudo-Hebrew. A bird—symbol of the soul—flies upwards. The landscape—contrastingly barren and lush—alludes to the themes of death and life, as do the animals. The Old Testament prophet Job sits on a block inscribed in pseudo-Hebrew while oppos...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art