The Entombment of Christ or Deposition from the Cross (1602-1603) is a masterwork completed by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and originally located in [Santa Maria in Vallicella], a church buit for St Phillip Neri, and adjacent to his Oratory building. A copy of the painting is now in place in the chapel. Now, after some eloping, it is among the treasures of the Vatican Pinacoteca. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1576x2357, 219 KB) Description: Title: de: Grablegung Christi Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 300 × 203 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Rom Current location (gallery): de: Pinacoteca Vaticana Other notes: de... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1576x2357, 219 KB) Description: Title: de: Grablegung Christi Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 300 × 203 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Rom Current location (gallery): de: Pinacoteca Vaticana Other notes: de... This page is about the year. ... King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April... Caravaggio re-directs here; for alternate uses see Caravaggio (disambiguation) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), often short Caravaggio after his hometown, was an Italian Baroque painter, whose large religious works portrayed saints and other biblical figures as ordinary people. ...

This baroque painting, with a diagonal cascade of mourners and lifters focusing downward to the dead and limp Christ and the bare stone. This is not a moment of transfiguration, but of mourning. As you descend from the gloom, you move from the hysterical Mary towards subdued emotion, with Death the final emotional silencing. Italian Christs, unlike the gored crucified Spanish Jesuses, die generally bloodlessly, and slump in a geometrically challenging display. As if emphasizing the dead Christ's inability to feel pain, a hand enters the wound at his side. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ...

While faces are important in all painting, in Caravaggio, it is important always to find where the arms are pointing. Skyward in the Conversion of St Paul on the Road to Damascus, towards Levi in the The Calling of Saint Matthew. Here, the dead God fallen arm and his immaculate shroud touch stone; the grieving Mary Cleophas gesticulates to Heaven. In some ways that was the message of Christ: God come to earth, and mankind reconciled with the heavens. My sense is that Caravaggio has restrained the shrillness of the mourners; the faith here is brusque, and populated by men who could have been plucked from the street. This is not a faith for the exagerated gesture, but Caravaggio has given us a faith for the heavy-lifters, the laborers, one of whom glares at our faithless sloth. The conversion on the way to Damascus, Cerasi chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. ... The Calling of Saint Matthew [1]is a masterpiece painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1599-1600 for the Contarelli chapel of the church of the French congregation San Luigi Dei Francesi [2]in Rome. ...

Another similar and generally contemporary work by Caravaggio would be the Death of the Virgin (1606) found at the Louvre Museum. The main courtyard of the Louvre. ...

Works by other artists

Compare this painting to Jacopo Pontormo's Deposition from the Cross or Raphael's earnest entombment (1507) Raphael's Entombement(1507), a more colored, crowded, and earnest assembly of apostles and mourners, found at the Borghese Gallery. Also see Peter Paul Rubens Deposition (1602) in Galleria Borghese or his Entombment of Christ (1609-10) Ottawa, National Gallery. Jacopo Carrucci (Pontormo, near Empoli, 1494 - 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, or simply Pontormo, was a Florentine painter and portraitist, and one of the classic exemplars of the Mannerist style of the 16th century. ... The Deposition from the Cross (1528) is a masterpiece of Jacopo del Pontormo painted with oil on wood for the altar of the Cappella Capponi in Santa Felicità in Florence. ... The Adoration of the Magii, painted 1624. ... The Villa Borghese Pinciana (begun 1605) houses the Galleria Borghese. ...