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One of the most admirable works of fifteenth-century Italy can be found in the heart of Bologna, like a small miracle, nearly 600 years after it was made. Even the illustrious Gabriele D\u2019Annunzio was so charmed by it during a visit that he described Niccol\u00f2 dell’Arca\u2019s Lamentation<\/em><\/g> \u201cthe sublime, violent image of a petrified cry\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entering the church of Santa Maria della Vita<\/a> and coming to the chapel to the right of the high altar, the terracotta group strikes the visitor like a theatrical epiphany, immediately drawing you into a mythical, profoundly dramatic narrative infused with telluric, eternally vital pathos. Everything shakes and vibrates, like a symphony, play or poem.<\/em> Christ\u2019s unchanged grace is rashly shattered by the polyphonic group of six figures, especially the vivid, hyper-realistic expressionism of the faces of the female figures, literally sculpted in the wind, the vibration of their garments and features anticipating the great Gian Lorenzo Bernini.<\/g> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 17th-century Emilian writer accurately described them as the \u201cendless weepers\u201d. A bold work for its time and restless synthesis of late-Gothic and Tuscan humanism, an art-historical diamond in the rough forever able to move, shake and seduce. And we can still hear that cry in the wind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niccol\u00f2 dell\u2019Arca, Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation)<\/em>, Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna (1463-90 ca)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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