03 — ARTWORK
The Entombment
- MEDIUM
- Egg tempera on wood, 41 x 58 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
This painting is one of the seven panels which formed the predellaAn Italian word for the small strip of paintings which forms the lower edge or socle of a large altarpiece (pala). Such a polyptych consists of a principal, central panel with subsidiary side and/or top panels, and a predella: the predella usually has narrative scenes from the lives of the Saints who are represented in the panels above. Because of the small size of predelle - they are not usually more than 25-30 cm high, though often relatively very wide - they were frequently used for pictorial experiments that the painter did not wish to risk making in the larger panels. The first datable example seems to be that in Simone Martini's S. Louis of Toulouse (1317, Naples). of the now dismembered altarpieceA picture or sculpture that stands on or is set up behind an altar. The term reredos is used for an ornamental screen or partition, not directly attached to the altar table but affixed to the wall behind it. A diptych is an altarpiece consisting of two panels, a triptych one of three panels, and a polyptych one of four or more panels. From the 14th to 16th century, the altarpiece was one of the most important commissions in European art; it was through the altarpiece that some of the most decisive developments in painting and sculpture came about. painted by Ugolino di Nerio for the Franciscan church of Santa Croce, Florence. The predella panels were from the left to the right, according to a nineteenth-century <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/h/humbert/ugolino.html')" href="/html/h/humbert/ugolino.html">drawing attributed to Humbert de Superville,</a> the following:
The Last SupperChrist's last meal with His disciples before His arrest and trial; the rite of communion is based on this. One of most famous depictions of the event is a fresco painted by Leonardo da Vinci. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York),
The Betrayal of Christ (National Galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen)., London),
The Flagellation (Staatliche Museen, Berlin),
The Way to Calvary (National Gallery, London),
The Deposition (National Gallery, London),
The Entombment (Staatliche Museen, Berlin),
The Resurrection (National Gallery, London).
In the predella scenes, the iconographyThe systematic study and identification of the subject-matter and symbolism of art works, as opposed to their style; the set of symbolic forms on which a given work is based. Originally, the study and identification of classical portraits. Renaissance art drew heavily on two iconographical traditions: Christianity, and ancient Greek and Roman art, thought and literature. is based very closely on the equivalent scene in <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/d/duccio/maesta/index.html')" href="/html/d/duccio/maesta/index.html">Duccio's Maestà</a> for Siena CathedralThe principal church of a province or diocese, where the throne of the bishop is placed. For reasons lost to time and tradition, a cathedral always faces west - toward the setting sun. The altar is placed at the east end. The main body, or nave, of the cathedral is usually divided into one main and two side aisles. These lead up to the north and south transepts, or arms of the cross, the shape in which a cathedral is usually formed..
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Entombment by UGOLINO DI NERIO},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
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urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
