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In 1500 in Perugia, a young man named Grifonetto Baglioni joined a plot that slaughtered much of his own ruling family in their beds one night. He was killed soon after, and his mother, Atalanta, who had refused him shelter, was left to grieve a son lost to a feud she could not stop. Some years later she commissioned Raphael, still in his early twenties, to paint an altarpiece in his memory, and he gave her the dead Christ being carried to the tomb. Raphael worked at it for two years and left a stack of preparatory drawings behind. The scene sits between two moments, Calvary rising on the right where the body was taken down, the burial cave waiting on the left. The strain shows in the bearers' braced legs and the slack weight of Christ's arm hanging down. It was for a mother who had watched her own son carried off dead.