Designed by Emanuel Max in 1858 as a commission of the Old Town public authorities, the statue depicts Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary mourning the dead Christ. At this position on the bridge, there was originally a wooden crucifix, which was destroyed by a flood in 1496. In 1695, a statue depicting the lamenting of Christ by Jan Brokoff was installed here; this has been removed to the Monastery of Gracious Nurses under the Petřín hill in Prague in 1859 and replaced by the current statue.
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