"Pieta, Flanders, Late 16th Century "
Pieta, oil on copper, dimensions 14 cm x 16.5 cm with the frame 18 cm x 22 cm, Flanders, end of the 16th century. The Pieta, a Christian theme of suffering and death, is the first episode after the Passion and before the Resurrection. It begins around 1350-1500, in relation to the terrible plague epidemics that hit Europe at this time.