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Description: | The body of the dead Christ is being anointed and prepared for burial by the two Marys and other holy women with Joseph of Arimathia supporting Christ's head. In a cave behind, Jews are burying a body and to the right are three crosses on which hang bodies. In the distance are the gate, wall and towers of a medieval city dominated by a castle. Although the body of Christ in the middle of this small picture, formerly entitled A Pietà, with the Crucifixion and the Entombment, is posed as in a pietà, this painting actually shows The Embalmment of the Body of Christ: the receptacle of balm held by the woman who is obviously a representation of Mary Magdalene makes this clear. The smaller scenes shown in the picture are the Crucifixion on the right of the middle-ground, the Entombment in the cave on the left, and, in front of the tomb, the Grief of the Three Marys. | Subjects: | figure; religion (pietà; crucifixion; entombment) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Floris, Frans, the elder (Flemish painter and printmaker, ca. 1519-1570) Æ Attributed to school of Previously attributed to Coffermans, Marcellus (Netherlandish painter, active 1549, died after 1575) Previously attributed to Spanish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8805... | Go to resource |
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