Entombment
1500
tempera
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1500
tempera
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Entombment is a 1500 tempera by German, a Northern Renaissance work, depicting Lamentation of Christ, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a scene of people placing a body in a tomb. It's a somber moment. The artist used simple lines and shapes to create this scene. This painting is interesting because it shows a moment of sadness and loss. The use of dark colors adds to the feeling of sorrow. To learn more about this style, look up the technique: tempera.
Lamponi, Florence, by 1902; sold, Jules Sambon, Florence, Nov. 10 and following days, 1902, no. 2335, as Lucas van Leyden. 3 Possibly Rodolphe Kann (died 1905), Paris [according to New York 1927]; Comte Demandolx-Dedons, Marseilles, probably by 1916; collection of M. le Comte de D., Paris, Mar.–Nov. 1916, as Rogier van der Weyden [Sterling 1990, citing Seymour de Ricci; Demandolx-Dedons was probably the M. le Comte de D. mentioned in the dossier for the Pietà of Saint-Germain, in the Service de Documentation, Musée du Louvre, Paris]; Achillito Chiesa, Milan; sold, New York, American Art…
New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art, 1927, no. 9. Detroit Institute of Arts, Seventh Loan Exhibition: French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Cen-tury, 1928, no. 6. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1- Nov. 1, 1933, no. 33. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1-Nov. 1, 1934, no. 21.
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la renaissance (1280–1580), vol. 2, Paris, 1907, p. 454, no. 1. Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1926, p. 52. R.M.F., “A Painting of the School of Avignon,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20 (1926), pp. 73, 75–76. Lloyd Goodrich, “New York Exhibitions,” Arts 9 (1926), p. 284. Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., “An Exhibition of French Primitives,” Arts 12 (1927), p. 245. Walter Heil, “Kunstwerke der französischen Gotik: Leiausstel-lung im Museum zu Detroit,” Pantheon 3 (1929), p. 78 (ill.). Albert C. Barnes and Violette de…
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This German clockmaker-turned-painter kept a tiny workshop where the scent of oil paint mixed with hot metal from his ticking experiments.
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