The Entombment
Andrea Andreani
1585
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut in black and burnt sienna, on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 41.8 × 32.3 cm (16 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingwoodcutpaper (fiber product)
About
Androi Andreani reproduced the works of the major artists of his century-such as Raphael, Parmigianino, and Titian-in color woodcuts. This impressive composition honors Raffaellino da Reggio , a little-known Florentine painter of the mid-16th century. The work may have been commissioned by Giovanni de' Medici, the Italian general to whom the work is dedicated.
