The Entombment (Michelangelo)
Michelangelo · 1510
The story
The Entombment is an unfinished oil-on-panel painting of the burial of Jesus, now generally attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti and dated to around 1500 or 1501. It is in the National Gallery in London, which purchased the work in 1868 from Robert Macpherson, a Scottish photographer resident in Rome, who, according to various conflicting accounts, had acquired the painting there some 20 years earlier. It is one of a handful of paintings attributed to Michelangelo, alongside the Manchester Madonna, the Doni Tondo, and possibly, The Torment of Saint Anthony.
- Artist
- Michelangelo
- Date
- 1510
- Collection
- National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Movement
- High Renaissance
- Medium
- tempera, oil paint, panel
- Size
- 161.7 × 149.9 cm
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