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10-APR-2004 Ron Lutz II

04-10-2004

Carnegie Museum of Art

Since it's Easter and all...

This is a detail of Mary Mourning the Dead Christ made of porcelain and ormolu at the Tournai Factory in 1765. This pietà (the name given to the figural group of Mary mourning the dead Christ) is crisply and delicately modeled. Because the porcelain was only fired once and left unglazed, it resembles marble and retains the sharpness of the modeling. Porcelain produced this way is known as biscuit. In the mid 1750s, the Sevres factory discovered and developed the medium’s advantages for sculpting figures. The technique for producing biscuit ware and its popularity spread quickly to other European porcelain factories. Tournai earned a reputation for the production of objects with the complex and dramatic groups of figures because of the high quality of the clay and expert modeling. This pietà ranks among the factory’s finest works of art.

I seem to be looking for things of late were I can use the f/2.8 DOF… Mary is not shown in this image, that's an angle kissing the hand of Jesus.

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
1/125s f/2.8 at 200.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Guest 11-Apr-2004 12:13
Fantastic shot
Guest 11-Apr-2004 02:47
Absolutely beautiful!
Karen Leaf11-Apr-2004 01:57
This is wonderful-I love how the face and hand are a llittle sharper than the rest of the shot. Great!
Guest 10-Apr-2004 23:53
I like this a lot, way to go Ron.
JD Anderson10-Apr-2004 21:49
What a beautiful image! Not only is is great artwork, but your capture of it is very nice!
JD
Guest 10-Apr-2004 20:43
How beautiful, Ron. It must be such a pleasure to work surrounded by such beauty all day.
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