Moretto da Brescia, 1554 - The Entombment - fine art print

Background information on the art print named "The Entombment"

The Entombment was created by the mannerist painter Moretto da Brescia. The 460 year-old original version of the piece of art had the dimensions: 94 1/2 x 74 1/2 in (240 x 189,2 cm) and was painted with oil on canvas. It can be viewed in in the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1912 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1912. In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Moretto da Brescia was an artist, whose artistic style can primarily be attributed to Mannerism. The Italian artist was born in 1492 and died at the age of 62 in the year 1554.

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Moretto painted this moving altarpiece just before his death for the oratory of a confraternity in his hometown. Restoration has revealed the striking contrast between the somber faces of the figures and the dawn light playing across the sky and landscape. Members of the group would have meditated on the moments following Christ’s death and thought of the piercing grief of his mother and other followers, but also of the promise of life to come. When it entered the museum, its gravity and nobility reminded one curator of the music of Bach or the poetry of Milton.