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The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio)

Painting by Caravaggio

The Entombment of Christ
ArtistCaravaggio
Year–
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions&#;cm ×&#;&#;cm (&#;in ×&#;80&#;in)
LocationPinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City

Caravaggio created one of his most admired altarpieces, The Entombment of Christ, in – for the second chapel on the right in Santa Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova), a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.[1] A copy of the painting is now in the chapel, and the original is in the Vatican Pinacoteca.

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    • The painting has been copied by artists as diverse as Rubens,[2]Fragonard, Géricault and Cézanne.[1]

    History

    On 11 July , Pope Gregory XIII () issued a bull confirming the formation of a new society called the Oratory and granting it the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella.

    Two months after the bull, the rebuilding of the church commenced. Envisaged in the planned re