Christ’s body lies on a stone slab, seen from the feet in a daring foreshortening that brings it very close to us, while sharp lines lead the eye to the rigid limbs and the wounds. In the upper left, Saint John weeps, the aged Virgin Mary wipes her eyes with a white handkerchief, and a third mourner, traditionally identified as Mary Magdalene, is barely visible. Andrea Mantegna probably made it for his own devotion: it is most likely the “foreshortened Christ” found in his studio when he died, later sold by his son Ludovico to Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga. Painted around 1483 in tempera on canvas, 68 × 81 cm, it entered the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan in 1824.