MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHY
THE PASSION
THE ENTOMBMENT
Matthew 27 : 2, 59-61
59 And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth.
60 And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out
in a rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument, and
went his way.
61 And there was there Mary Magdalen, and the other Mary
sitting
over against the sepulchre.
SEE ALSO: Mark 15 : 46-47; Luke 23 : 53-55 ; John 19 :39-42 ;
Act
Pil XI, 3, James, 1924, p105
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OTTONIAN
ECHTERNACH
GOSPELS
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ROMANESQUE
PSALTER of St ELIZABETH
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GOTHIC
Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
New York: The Cloisters
f. 82v-83
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Duccio: Maesta (1308-10), Siena Cathedral
Diagram
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Back-Panels 44 and 45
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Entombment-Detail
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Giotto: Padua, Arena Chapel (1304, 1312-13)
View of Interior
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Lamentation
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