A blue dress adorns a figure in a pre-Renaissance painted wood sculpture of this scene titled for its Southern German origin. Castilian artists Juan de Juni and Gregorio Fernández created polychrome wooden sculptures of this scene, which were incorporated into processions called paso. An artist carved his signature onto the sash of a figure in a sculpture of this scene commissioned for Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas to prove it was not by Cristoforo Solari. A Bandini version of this scene that includes Nicodemus and Mary Magdalene was nearly destroyed in a fit of rage and is titled The Deposition. St. Peter's Basilica houses a sculpture of this scene that depicts a controversially youthful woman at Mount Golgotha who cradles the injured central figure. Michelangelo created a version of, for 10 points, what scene depicting Mary holding Jesus' dead body? ■END■
ANSWER: Pieta [or Lamentation of Christ; prompt on Deposition before mentioned]
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