The stories behind the paintings

Christ’s body hangs in strips of linen as his friends strain to carry him up a stone stairway to the tomb. On the right, a large patch of bare panel waits for a figure that was never painted. Michelangelo began this Entombment in Rome in about 1500, at the age of twenty-five, and left it unfinished when he went home to Florence the following year. It is one of perhaps only three panel paintings by him that survive, and it now hangs in the National Gallery in London. The picture below is our vintage poster of the painting; the original is shown further down. Vintage art poster by Sapiens Verbum after Michelangelo, The Entombment , about 1500–01 (National Gallery, London). Available from the Sapiens Verbum print shop. 🖼️ Get the vintage poster → License this image → Quick facts Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian painter, sculptor and architect Title: The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb) Date: abo...