Christ with Saint/Renaissance Portrait

Christ with Saint(s)

In the 1525A.D. tempera and oil painting Lamentation by Jacob Cornelisz and Van Oostsanen, Christ has been taken off the cross and his peers are lamenting over him. The peers are the Virgin Mary, St. John and Mary Magdalene along with Christ's other disciples. Mary is depicted in a blue robe with a white headdress leaning over her son in grief. St. John is depicted wrapped in a dramatic, billowing, red fabric standing and looking over christ with sorrowful glance. Mary Magdalene is seen lifting up christ's feet in an ornate brown and white dress. This lovely piece of art can be found at the Columbus Museum of Art, just mere minutes away from CCAD campus.

Renaissance Portrait



In the 1635 oil painting Christian Bruce, Countess of Devonshire by Anthony van Dyck, Van Dyck depicts the very wealthy Countess of Devonshire. With the use of the luxurious black fabric dress, pearls, other accessories, and her stiff but well mannered pose, one can concur that the countess is of very high societal status, being a very important and wealthy figure around the end of the Renaissance. This beautiful piece can also be found at the Columbus Museum of Art.


-Nancy Brockert

Works Cited

Columbus Museum of Art. October 15, 2015. Accessed October 21,
2016. http://www.columbusmuseum.org/.