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This is one of perhaps only three surviving panel paintings by the great Florentine artist Michelangelo. It shows Christ’s body being carried to his tomb. It was probably made for a funerary chapel in the church of S. Agostino, Rome – commissioned in 1500 and left unfinished when Michelangelo returned to Florence the following year. Saint John the Evangelist may be the figure on the left carrying Christ’s body on strips of winding cloth helped by one of the Three Marys. They carry him up a staircase to his tomb in the rocks. The man behind Christ is either Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus. Another of the Three Marys, possibly Mary Magdalene, sits on the ground. The space left empty on the right was probably intended for the kneeling figure of the Virgin Mary.
Title
The Entombment
Date
about 1500-1
Medium
Oil on wood
Measurements
H 161.7 x W 149.9 cm
Accession number
NG790
Acquisition method
Bought, 1868
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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