"Deposition (or Lamentation)"

Deposition has a powerful luminous quality, and follows a diagonal composition, indicating that the artist took into consideration the oblique angle at which it was to be viewed in its intended location. However, it is in many ways more innovative as it marks a further development in the research dedicated to the representation of the 'motions of the soul' which had begun to interest Correggio starting from the second decade of the sixteenth century and that this work served in fact as a model for seventeenth-century artists who were able to develop its pathos in a baroque direction. Curator and art historian the artist shows the powerful emotions, particularly shock and despair, conveyed through this work.  This and other works by Correggio directly influenced Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci.