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The Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints is a painting of the Lamentation of Christ by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli dated between 1490-1495. It is housed in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli of Milan.The composition is pyramidal with tightly connected figures. At the same times it evocates the shape of a cross culminating in Joseph of Arimathea who shows the crown of thorns and the nails.

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