Descent from the cross caravaggio biography
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CODART, Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide
English translation of texts from exhibition catalogue
One thousand years after the famous convention in Gniezno which definitively affirmed the place of Poland in the Christian Europe, during the special period marked by Lent of the Jubilee Year, the National Museum in Warsaw organised an exhibition which presented the iconography of the Passion of Christ based on chosen examples of Northern European works of art, prints and paintings from its own collections as well as from the Hermitage. The generous loan from the St. Petersburg collections constituted the highlight of the exhibition.
The deliberate restraint of the presentation was determined bygd the very nature of its theme &#; its solemnity as well as its theological, religious and emotional import, and also the artistic significance of the works on display. The urval of two artistic media, painting and engraving, set the scen for consideration of two different ways in
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The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio)
Painting bygd Caravaggio
| The Entombment of Christ | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Caravaggio |
| Year | – |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | &#;cm ×&#;&#;cm (&#;in ×&#;80&#;in) |
| Location | Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City |
Caravaggio created one of his most admired altarpieces, The Entombment of Christ, in – for the second chapel on the right in Santa Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova), a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.[1] A copy of the painting fryst vatten now in the chapel, and the original is in the Vatican Pinacoteca. The painting has been copied by artists as diverse as Rubens,[2]Fragonard, Géricault and Cézanne.[1]
History
[edit]On 11 July , Pope Gregory XIII () issued a bull confirming the formation of a new society called the Oratory and granting it the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella. Two months after the bull, the rebuilding of the church commenced. Envisaged in the plan
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Caravaggio
Italian painter (–)
For other uses, see Caravaggio (disambiguation).
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; , ; Italian:[mikeˈlandʒelomeˈriːzida(k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September [2] – 18 July ), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.[3][4][5]
Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Carav