Rhapsodies

Well another free first Thursday at the Seattle Art Museum and another crack at Massimiliano Soldani Benzi‘s Lamentation of the Dead Christ. This time I tried going at it from the other side that I normally have.

Regrettably it’s about as much of a mess as usual. This really is a hard one to do standing up. Every time I looked at it it was at a slightly different angle! To add to my humiliation, included is the photo I took of the original angle I started with.

While I was drawing this I couldn’t quite get it out of my head why an angel would be crying in any of these paintings when they would know the score… Unless the need to know bureaucracy of Heaven is even more convoluted than the Bible suggests.