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Entombment

Entombment

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Artist

Peter Paul Rubens

Production date

1620 – 1626

Collection

Museum Plantin-Moretus

Object number

PK.OP.16246

Dimensions

207 mm x 287 mm

Keywords

Entombments

Religious - New Testament

References

http://vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/collection/work/data/PK_OP_16246

The body of Christ carried on a cloth-stretcher by St Joseph of Arimathaea towards the tomb inside a rock overlayed with straw at right; at left the Virgin looking to the heavens and holding the shroud; St Mary Magdalene behind her; St John the Evangelist standing in background.

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