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entombment

NOUN
burial
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By that year he had also completed “The Entombment of Christ,” a work of profound grief and astonishing achievement, even by Caravaggio’s already high standards.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020

Among the highlights will be “The Entombment of Christ,” an early panel by El Greco from the mid-1570s.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2012

Rubens quoted anyone he wanted to, without the slightest embarrassment, in a spirit of reasoned homage: the great Entombment of Christ, 1613-15, for instance, is taken almost directly from Caravaggio.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Entombment, valued at $500,000, is eight by ten inches in size, and believed by experts to be the model for a larger work never completed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vittoria's responses for Tenebr� are of a like inspiration and an equal loftiness with those of Quentin Matsys' great work, the Entombment of Christ.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)




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