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Description: | The decorative pillars and the gilded tracery framing this religious scene suggest that this panel, showing the dead Christ in his tomb held by the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, was probably part of an altarpiece. The three figures are painted in tempera on an ornamental background modelled in gold on gesso, a technique called embutido in contemporary documents. The painter combined the image of Christ showing his wounds after the Crucifixion, or the Man of Sorrows, with the theme of the Entombment. Little is known about the Master of Torralba, who worked in Aragon during the fifteenth century. | Subjects: | St John the Evangelist) Virgin Mary religion (Christ | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Master of Torralba (Spanish painter, active ca. 1440) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9044... | Go to resource |
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