Raffael painted ..."The Deposition of Christ"
A graissaille.
It's sort of the inbetween day in Easter Week.
Not Easter Sunday celebration
Not Holy Friday and sorrow...
The day the disciples may have spent either hiding or crying.
I would have!
When I was still at Wirral Art College...Birkenhead..I chose Raffael's graissaille of the Deposition for a transcription.
I had been to Florence with a dear friend Ann ..and we went as did most tourists to The Uffizzi Galleries. This was not there!..but inspired by the renaissance art I saw and encouraged by our tutor...Ed...I took charcoal, inks, boot polish and paint and poured my heart into my interpretation of Raffael.
It hangs now mainly out of sight on a high wall in Penketh.
Today is the day I think of his mother taking him down off the cross.
Maybe dark times today... but a light to come.
Keep hopeful.
