Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Crucifixion of Christ c.1500–1501 Oil on lime, 58.5 × 45 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The small-format panel, which was probably used for private devotion, dates from Cranach‘s first known creative period, which the artist spent in…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Études (Studies of a Head of a Man, Hands of Saint John for Christ Offering Saint Peter the Keys to Paradise, and Hooded Capuchin monk) c.1817–1820 Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 32.4 cm Rhode Island…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien (The Entombment of Christ after Titian) 1820 Oil on canvas, 40 x 55.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo c.1520 Musée du Louvre, Paris Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione nel sepolcro (The Entombment) 1559 Oil on canvas, 136 x 174.5 cm Museo 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)…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie d’après Le Titien (Study after Titian’s Entombment of Christ) c.1864 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 20 x 29.5 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo c.1520 Musée du Louvre, Paris …
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo (The Entombment of Christ) c.1520 Oil on canvas, 148 x 212 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione nel sepolcro 1559 Museo del Prado, Madrid Copies: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie d’après Le Titien c.1864 Rhode Island…
El Greco (1541-1614) Pietà (Lamentation) Early 1570s Oil on panel, 28.9 × 20 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia El Greco was born in the Venetian territory of Crete and trained in Venice before moving to Rome. There he encountered the work…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) La deposizione dalla croce (The Descent from the Cross) c.1550 Oil on copperplate, 70 x 54 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Christ’s dead body is taken off the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and Saint John the…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Polittico di San Luca (Saint Luke Polyptych) 1453–1455 Tempera on panel, 177 x 230 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Altarpiece of San Luca was made for the church of Santa Giustina in Padua from 1453 to…