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The Entombment of Christ

Panel from the predella of the Santa Trinita Deposition (or a closely related altarpiece). Joseph and Nicodemus lower the body into the sepulchre.

The Entombment of Christ by Fra Angelico depicting Matthew 27:57
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Depicted passages

Matthew 27:57-61Primary
Portrait of Fra Angelico

About Fra Angelico

1395-1455 · Italian

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro; Beato Angelico) was a Dominican friar of San Domenico (Fiesole) and later San Marco (Florence). His gold-ground panel altarpieces (the Prado and Cortona Annunciations, the Linaioli Tabernacle, the Louvre Coronation) and the small meditative frescoes he painted in the cells of San Marco — begun in 1438 under Prior Antoninus — made him the defining early Renaissance painter of contemplative prayer. He painted the Chapel of Nicholas V in the Vatican Palace between 1447 and 1449. Beatified in 1982.

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