The corpse the most represented in Western art is Christ’s dead body. Indeed, the Dead Christ is an iconographic theme that has been interpreted many times in painting as much as in sculpture and most recently in photography. Contemporary artists encounter this iconography to give a personal and secular point of view. Two tendencies must be pointed out. The first one are Christ-like poses that can be understood as identifications with Christ’s suffering. The second tendency overtly reveals its legacy to old art, but subverts it to degrade the Christ figure, making Jesus’ death ordinary in pictures that show sleeping models in attitudes that are codified and related to traditional representations of the Dead Christ. This article intends to analyze these two contemporary points of view on a major subject of art history.