The Entombment

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Entombment

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Several of his followers lower Christ's lifeless body into a grave within a dusky crypt with an arched ceiling. Several figures are gathered near, some of whom can be plausibly identified. The balding, bearded Peter is at Christ's right shoulder. At his feet, Mary sorrowfully bows her head in prayer. Joseph of Arimathea, who donated his own burial place to honor Jesus, leans on a staff. Behind him is Nicodemus, who offered an abundance of incense to anoint the body. Several men help lower the body: one at the head of the grave supports Jesus's upper body, the foreground figure supports him from beneath his thighs. Soft light baths Christ's body and those people close by. Other figures are nearly obscured by the darkness. On top of the wall above the grave, we can make out a few skulls. Rembrandt began this image as a fairly spare outline etching. After printing a small edition he returned to the copper plate, adding a dense network of lines to transform it into a nocturne. Leaving ink on the surface of his printing plate, he further explored possibilites beyond his etching, scratching, and burnishing to produce he the radiance that seems to eminate from the body of Christ. Netherlands, Europe

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Dated
c. 1654
Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Department
European Art
Credit
The John E. and Marion Andrus III Endowment in support of the Department of Prints and Drawings, the Barbara S. Longfellow Endowed Acquisition Fund, and gift of funds from Mary and Ray Mithun
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and burnishing on paper

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In a stone crypt barely lit by an unearthly glow, Rembrandt's followers lower Christ's lifeless body into the grave while Peter kneels at his shoulder and Mary bows in prayer at his feet - skulls resting on the wall above them nearly swallowed by shadow. Rembrandt created this etching around 1654 by repeatedly reworking the copper plate, burnishing away lines to recover light and leaving ink on its surface to deepen the darkness. That light doesn't fall on Christ's body - it seems to radiate from within it, a technical achievement that pushed printmaking beyond anything done before.

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Object ID
146709
Object Type
Prints
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Classification” · the first available of several museum fields
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Object Name” · the first available of several museum fields
Creator
Rembrandt van Rijn
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Artist” · copied as is
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and burnishing on paper
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Medium” · copied as is
Department
European Art
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Department” · copied as is
Credit Line
The John E. and Marion Andrus III Endowment in support of the Department of Prints and Drawings, the Barbara S. Longfellow Endowed Acquisition Fund, and gift of funds from Mary and Ray Mithun
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Credit” · copied as is
Date
c. 1654
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · copied as is
Begin Year
1654
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End Year
1654
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