It's raining, somehow appropriate for the mood of today.
Bernard Daddi (14th Century). Mary sits to one side, exhausted, John on the other, watching her. Jesus is no longer here; his body is just a grey husk.
Thank heavens, thank God, for 'spoilers' as they are called; we know, as they do not, that this is not the end, but the gateway to the beginning.
This is one of the pictures the Patrick Bringley discusses in 'All the Beauty in the World'.
Tenebrae singing 'Crucifixus' by Antonio Lotti (1687 - 1740) conducted by Nigel Short, in the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris.
sub Pontio Pilato passus,
et sepultus est.
He was also crucified for us;
under Pontius Pilate, he suffered
and was buried.
From the Nicene Creed
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