Niccolo dell’ArcaLamentation over the Dead Christ c1463Painted terracottaSanta Maria della Vita, Bologna

Post-restoration

Detail, Nicodemus

Detail, lamenting woman

Details, Virgin Mary

Detail, St. John the Evangelist

detail, lamenting woman

Detail, lamenting woman

Detail, Dead Christ

Workshop of Nicola Pisano, Niccolo dell’Arca, and Michelangelo Arca (Tomb) of S. DomenicoMarbleS. Domenico Maggiore, Bologna

Sarcophagus and reliefs by Nicola Pisano and workshop, 13th centuryPitched roof and statuary by Niccola dell’Arca, c.1469-94 (unfinished at death)Statuary completed by Michelangelo, c.1495

Detail, God the father

Detail, Christ as Man of Sorrows

Detail, St. John the Evangeilst

Detail, St. Mark

Detail, St. Luke

Detail, St. Matthew

Detail, St. Matthew

Details, St. Florian

Detail, S. Vitale

Detail, St. Agricola

Details, St. Francis

Detail, St. Dominic

Detail, Candle holding angel

Detail, Adoring angel

Michelangelo,S. Petronio

c.1495

MichelangeloS. Procolo

c.1495

Niccolo dell’ArcaS. Domenico

Painted terracotta, 1474San Domenico, Bologna

German/Austrian wood sculptorSt John1505-10

Unpainted wood, height: 56 cmBayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

German/Austrian wood sculptorAssumption of the Virgin (detail)

1505-10Limewood

Herrgottskirche, Creglingen-am-Tauber

German/Austrian wood sculptorSalome1500-10

Limewood, half lif-sizeVictoria and Albert Museum, London