Christ with Joseph of Arimathea (Q60516083)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
religious art (Q2864737)
artist:
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (Q938442)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly:
Italy (Q38)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.512
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: After the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea obtained permission to bury Christ’s body in Joseph’s own tomb. Aside from an amorphous, cloudy sky, Savoldo eliminated the background entirely and reduced the narrative to two monumental figures, brought to the front of the picture plane. These qualities surely had a great impact on Caravaggio, who initially trained in Northern Italy, where Savoldo spent his career. This work originally hung over a large altarpiece, which explains the unusual perspective, the panel’s horizontal shape, and the figures’ position above the viewer.
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