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The Entombment
The artist Moretto da Brescia conceived this altarpiece as a meditation on mortality when he painted it in 1554, just before his death. Though Mary and the other attendants are full of grief, as expressed by their faces, they are unaware at this point of the light breaking behind them, a hint of the resurrection to come.
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© Moretto da Brescia | Public Domain