The theme of the exhibition presented at the Greve Museum was suggested by what is perhaps the most important work of art kept there: the large polychrome altarpiece in terracotta, which portrays the Compianto sul Cristo morto (Mourning over the Dead Christ), attributed to Santi Buglioni in the past, but today linked to the prestigious circle of Baccio da Montelupo. The painfully human expressions of the Virgin and Her Son are exalted here in a group of mourners who are rendered astonishingly "alive" and present by the technique and materials used, so as to provoke the immediate sympathy of the faithful. The theme of the Compianto is reiterated both in a splendid canvas attributed to Giovanni Martinelli, coming from the collections of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, and in the extremely beautiful group in terracotta by Andrea della Robbia coming from the National Museum of Bargello. The above mentioned works are both imbued with a different spirituality, but does not fail to provoke a strong emotional involvement in the event. Among the other items in the museum’s permanent collection, we find a similar theme in a 14th century version in a small ivory pace, (a particle case) of the late 1300’s, coming from the Florentine workshop of the Embriachi: Christ, still on the cross, shares a sorrowful meditation with the Virgin and Saint John, who are at His sides, united by the same very human feeling of grief.