The Entombment of Christ

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1603–1604

Oil on canvas, 300 × 203 cm

Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City

Room III · The Great Commissions (1600–1604)

The Entombment of Christ, Caravaggio, 1603–1604 — Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Painted for the Vittrice Chapel in Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome. Taken to Paris under Napoleon, it later returned to Rome and the Vatican. Christ's body is lowered onto the corner of a stone slab that seems to jut out towards the viewer.