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The Deposition and the Entombment
Also titled De kruisafneming en graflegging
c. 1290
- Medium
- panel, tempera
- Classification
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height 18.5 cm x width 18 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
These two panels are probably fragments from a larger ensemble devoted to the Passion of Christ. The artist followed established conventions for depicting grief and sorrow through gesture. This approach was characteristic of the stiff, rather formulaic style derived from Greek and Byzantine models that was prevalent in 13th-century Italy.
