The Lamentation. Artist: Luis de Morales (Spanish, Plasencia () 1510/11-1586 Alcántara). Dimensions: 35 × 24 5/8 in. (89 × 62.5 cm). Date: ca. 1560.Luis de Morales was celebrated for his devotional images. Their exquisite facture and morbid sensibility made them perfect vehicles for meditation and earned him the epithet "El Divino." He was the favorite painter of the religious reformer and saint Juan de Ribera (1532-1611). As one prominent scholar has noted: "No Spanish painter was ever to surpass Morales in expressing the passionate, personal faith of the mystical writers." This extremely fine picture was owned by Pope Pius VII and upon his death in 1823 passed to his family, who retained it until 2014. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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The Lamentation. Artist: Luis de Morales (Spanish, Plasencia () 1510/11-1586 Alcántara). Dimensions: 35 × 24 5/8 in. (89 × 62.5 cm). Date: ca. 1560.Luis de Morales was celebrated for his devotional images. Their exquisite facture and morbid sensibility made them perfect vehicles for meditation and earned him the epithet "El Divino." He was the favorite painter of the religious reformer and saint Juan de Ribera (1532-1611). As one prominent scholar has noted: "No Spanish painter was ever to surpass Morales in expressing the passionate, personal faith of the mystical writers." This extremely fine picture was owned by Pope Pius VII and upon his death in 1823 passed to his family, who retained it until 2014. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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