Gioacchino The Pieta

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The Lamentation (The Pieta) by Gioacchino Assereto is located in the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville. The Lamentation is a subject we have covered multiple times in class, describing the scene right after Christ is removed from the cross, where a group of figures mourn his death. There is not too much biographical information on Assereto, so in this paper I will analyze the technical elements, the history of the Lamentation, and the influence of Caravaggio to his work. Assereto Gioacchino was born in 1600 in Genoa. He studied with Luciano Borzone when he was 12 and at 14 he entered the studio of Andrea Ansaldo. Many of his early paintings were close in style to Bernardo Strozzi and to contemporary works by Ansaldo, Giulio Benso and Giovanni …show more content…

Apparently her was unimpressed by the work and confirmed the belief in his art. The influence of Caravaggio established his interest in realism, completely rejecting mannerism. He was influenced by the different possibilities of compositions that depend on chiaroscuro instead of a diverse color palette. He moved away from his refined early works that had vividly colored narratives to a bolder, violent style e.g. Death of Cato. He was most likely exposed to the works of northern Caravaggesque painters such as Gerrit van Honthorst and Matthias Stom while in …show more content…

Usually the body of Christ is stretched out on the ground or being held up by others. The lamentation scene is similar to the Pieta, which describes a more devotional aspect of the scene, with the Virgin alone with Christ’s body, e.g. Annibale Carracci’s Pieta. The Lamentation depicts more of a dynamic narrative. The people present in the narrative are usually: the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene. These are the same figures present in the Descent from the cross, or the

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