Titian - The Entombment. The Burial of Christ 1572
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The Entombment. The Burial of Christ 1572
130x168cm oil on canvas
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid:
Titian represented the Gospel account of the burial of Christ (Matthew 27: 57-61; Mark 15: 44-47; Luke 23: 50-54; John 19: 38-42) on several occasions. There is a notable difference between his first version (Paris, Louvre) of around 1526 which is clearly indebted to Raphael´s painting of that subject (Rome, Galleria Borghese), and his other versions painted between 1559 and 1572. The main difference lies in the fact that they illustrate different moments in the narrative: while the first depicts the moving of Christ´s body, the other paintings show it being placed in the tomb.