Jerusalem
The Lamentation
The Virgin Mary holding the body of Christ taken down from the cross
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- Depicts
- The Virgin Mary holding the body of Christ taken down from the cross
- Tradition
- Byzantine
- Support
- Nordic pine panel
- Technique
- Chromography on wood, mixed technique polychromy
- Finish
- By hand, in our own workshop
- Dimensions
- 30 x 42 cm
- Panel thickness
- 1,8 cm
- Weight
- 1,8 kg
- Delivery time
- 21 days
The journey
Just inside the Holy Sepulchre there is a slab of rose stone where tradition places this moment. Pilgrims kneel to touch it before they look at anything else.
How to read it
She neither weeps nor cries out: she rests her cheek against his and repeats the very gesture with which she held him as a newborn. The icon closes the whole circle of a life.
When it is given
Mourning and companionship. This is the piece you bring to a house where someone has just died.
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