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Original fileEntombment
Entombment title QS:P1476,en:"Entombment "label QS:Len,"Entombment "label QS:Lit,"Deposizione Borghese"label QS:Lfr,"Déposition Borghèse"label QS:Lru,"Положение во гроб"label QS:Lvec,"La Deposission"label QS:Lde,"Grablegung Christi"label QS:Lpt,"Deposição"label QS:Lca,"Trasllat de Crist"label QS:Lfa,"پایین آوردن عیسی از صلیب (رافائل)"label QS:Lzh,"耶穌下葬 (拉斐爾)"label QS:Llt,"Nuėmimas nuo kryžiaus"label QS:Lsl,"Polaganje v grob (Rafael)"label QS:Lja,"キリストの遺骸の運搬"label QS:Ltr,"İsa'nın Mezara Konması"label QS:Les,"Traslado de Cristo"label QS:Lid,"Penurunan (Raffaello)"label QS:Lpl,"Złożenie do grobu"label QS:Luk,"Покладення в труну"label QS:Lnl,"The Deposition"label QS:Larz,"الترسب"label QS:Lsv,"Kristi gravläggning"label QS:Laz,"Çarmıxdan endirilmə"label QS:Loc,"Despocion Borghese"label QS:Leo,"Entombigo"label QS:Lmk,"Симнување од крстот"
About This Work
A close-up view of a group of figures carrying the body of Christ towards a tomb. Mary Magdalene reaches out to hold Christ's hand while weeping, and an older bearded man, likely Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus, looks toward the viewer with a pained expression. The scene is set against a rolling landscape with mountains and a distant fortified tower under a pale sky.
This work represents the transition of High Renaissance art toward a more complex, dramatic style that harmonizes classical physical form with intense emotional narrative. It reflects the intellectual environment of the early 16th century where Christian devotion and classical aesthetic ideals were synthesized by artists within the circles of the Roman papacy.