Masters/Antonio Ciseri/The Transport of Christ to the Sepulchre
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Two bearded men carry the body of Jesus in a sheet, bent under its weight. Behind them walk John and the Virgin Mary, her face lifted to heaven, and the other women weeping. The procession moves left, toward the tomb we cannot see.
Ciseri’s original hangs in the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Sasso above Locarno, where it was placed in 1870. This photograph shows a version in Florence.
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Other masters in room 63, Laid in a New Tomb:
Carl Bloch
The Burial, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
Heinrich Hofmann
The Entombment of Christ, by 1893
Drawing, reproduced as an illustration
From an 1893 edition of Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
James Tissot
Jesus Carried to the Tomb, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.324)
Alexander Ivanov
The Burial of Christ, late 1840s–1858
Watercolor and pencil on paper (Biblical Sketches)
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Gallery of Modern Art, Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy.
Google MapsGoogle EarthImage: Photo by Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
