Bernardo Strozzi is one of the great protagonists of Genoese painting. A master of colour, an artist with a rapid and full-bodied brushstroke, Strozzi also achieved great success outside Liguria, ending his days in Venice. This canvas, characterized by acid colors and strong contrasts of light and shadow, was painted in his youth. The expression of the Virgin lets us imagine the presence, at her feet, of the dead body of her Son. The canvas was probably kept in Palazzo Spinola as early as the seventeenth century.