Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin is a tempera on panel painting measuring 27.5 by 17.5 cm by Andrea Mantegna.[1] It was completed around 1462 and is now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Ferrara.[2] It shows Christ in an almond-shaped cloud bearing the soul of the Virgin Mary straight to heaven after her death, accompanied by cherubs - the soul is represented by a statuette, rather than the more usual symbol of a child.[3]
^(in Italian) Jadranka Bentini (ed.), La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara. Catalogo generale, Bologna, Nuova Alfa editoriale, 1992, pp. 65–67. ISBN 8877792922
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^(in Italian) Alberta De Nicolò Salmazo, Mantegna, Electa, Milano 1997.
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