Shop art print and framed art The Entombment by Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Entombment (Deposizione di Cristo nel sepolcro) is a tempera painting with oil overpainting, painted between 1500 and 1501 by Michelangelo on a wooden panel measuring 162 × 150 cm. The work, whose subject is the Entombment of Christ, is in the National Gallery in London. It comes from a collection in Rome, and relates to a compensation Michelangelo made between 1501 and 1502 for an altarpiece in the church of San Agostino that he was unable to deliver. This could explain why the painting was never completed. This is a theme in the iconography of Christian painting, the stage of Christ's Passion between his Crucifixion and Resurrection (two terms that apply only to Christ). Christ's entombment is carried out by those closest to him, Mary and the holy apostles, outside, close to the place of burial (tomb, sarcophagus or grotto closed off by a rock, depending on the representation). It is an unfinished painting, as can be seen from the outline of the Virgin Mary on the right, the clouds in the upper left, a piece of landscape (a building?) in the upper right, and the ground in the foreground. The figures supporting Christ and Christ himself adopt very swaying, almost "choreographic" poses. Christ is naked (apart from a strip of cloth passed under his armpits to lift him). In addition to the rocks to the right of the painting, the main figures are placed on steps. Several interpretations can be given to the figures in the [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

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