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Description: | The dominant figure in this scene is the body of the dead Christ, lowered into the tomb by St John the Evangelist with help from Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathaea, while the Virgin Mary mourns to one side. A plump pink angel holds up the contrasting greyish arm of Jesus, pointing to the wounds made by the nails in his hands. During the late 1630s and early 1640s, when Romanelli was working at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome with his master Pietro da Cortona, he produced a series of jewel-like cabinet paintings, often painted on copper. These are typified by simple classical forms and bright, pure colours, as seen here in the Virgin's ultramarine mantle and the Magdalene's ochre cloak. | Subjects: | religion (Burial of Christ) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (Italian painter, 1610-1662) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Reni, Guido (Italian painter and draftsman, 1575-1642) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8670... | Go to resource |
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