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The Meditation on the Passion
ca. 1490 · Oil and tempera on wood · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Christ sits dead on a broken throne, and two old men keep watch without a word. The Metropolitan Museum calls it a meditation on death and resurrection: the body displayed on a throne inscribed in pseudo-Hebrew, a bird, symbol of the soul, flying upward. The Old Testament prophet Job sits on an inscribed block; opposite him is Saint Jerome, who wrote a commentary on the book of Job. The land, barren on one side and lush on the other, alludes, the Met says, to death and life. Carpaccio leaves a skull in the dust, and the crown of thorns lies on the ground.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Meditation on the Passion', accession 11.118; read 2026-08-27. · Atara Moscovich, 'The Lion and the Wisdom - The Multiple Meanings of the Lion as One of the Keys for Deciphering Vittore Carpaccio's Meditation on the Passion', Religions 10, no. 5 (2019): art. 344, DOI 10.3390/rel10050344; open access, read 2026-08-27.
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, Venice 1460/66?–1525/26 Venice) |
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| Date | ca. 1490 |
| Museum | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Accession | 11.118 |
| Medium | Oil and tempera on wood |
| Dimensions | Overall 27 3/4 x 34 1/8in. (70.5 x 86.7cm); painted surface 26 3/16 × 33 1/4 in. (66.5 × 84.5 cm) |
| Sheet sizes | 11×14 in |
| Held by | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · 11.118 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | The Met’s own open-access file |
| Licence | Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication |
| Master | 3,833 × 3,120 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from The Met’s own open-access file on 25 August 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,833 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.