Traveling Altarpiece with the Burial of Christ

ca. 1550 (Renaissance)

13 cm 11.8 cm

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The dead Christ supported by mourners preparing the body for burial-and for the contemplation of the pious-was a frequent subject of Catholic devotional art. The carefully modeled colored wax relief has a physical reality that painting on a flat surface cannot rival. The case...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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