The dead Christ supported by two Angels

Bernardino Fungai's Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels at the York Art Gallery represents a popular devotional image type known as the Imago Pietatis. This format, showing the dead Christ displayed by angels or saints, served as a powerful eucharistic image connecting Christ's sacrifice with the sacrament of the altar. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting.

The panel presents the half-length dead Christ supported by two angels in the standard devotional format, rendered with Fungai's Sienese palette and the decorative refinement that characterized his workshop production.