The Lamentation ca. 1582 Ludovico Carracci Italian In this astonishing painting, Christ has been painted with a directness and lack of idealization that sixteenth-century critics found shocking, while the figures of the Virgin, the three Maries, and Saint John are strikingly stylized. This experimentation with the means of representation rather than an abstract sense of harmony and beauty characterizes Ludovicos early work. A landmark of the Carracci reform of painting, the picture belonged to Alessandro Tanari, papal treasurer of Bologna and an avid collector of Ludovicos paintings.. The Lamentation 438427