The Entombment
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Entombment, painted in 1554 by the Brescian master Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino), is a monumental altarpiece capturing the solemn moment of Christ's body being lowered into the tomb following the Crucifixion. Executed at grand scale for a church setting, the composition arranges mourning figures in a carefully balanced frieze around the pale, lifeless body of Christ, their gestures of grief rendered with restrained yet profound emotional gravity.
Moretto, one of the leading painters of sixteenth-century Brescia, was celebrated for his cool, silvery palette and his ability to fuse Venetian colorism with a Lombard sensitivity to naturalistic detail and devotional sincerity. The composition's hushed, twilight atmosphere and the tender handling of drapery and flesh reflect the artist's mature style, in which grandeur is tempered by intimacy and quiet human sorrow.
Now held in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) |
| Year | 1554 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 94 1/2 x 74 1/2 in. (240 x 189.2 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Renaissance |
