Good Friday

 One of Giovanni Bellini's last (and greatest) paintings – Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1515-6), now in the Gallerie dell' Accademia in Venice. 
  And here, to go with it, is a short, enigmatic poem by R.S. Thomas – 

Pieta

Always the same hills
Crowd the horizon,
Remote witness
Of the still scene.

And in the foreground
The tall Cross,
Sombre, untenanted,
Aches for the Body
That is back in the cradle
Of a maid's arms.