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Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

Candido Portinari1944

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black, red and white tones. Straigh and parallel outlines. Dead Jesus being carried by four figures, close to a tomb with the background wood. On the left female profile to the right with the head bent forward, holding the armpits the body of Jesus which is in front of naked and placed in a kind of shroud and being suspended by three figures. The body of Jesus is in horizontal view across the center of the composition. Behind Jesus at the time of his waist, man standing in front with beard, holding the shroud; more to the right, another figure, lower than the others, front and head tilted to the right holding also in the shroud, at the time of Jesus' feet; on the right man standing in front with beard, his body slightly back as if pulling the tip of the shroud holding with both hands trying to put the body of Jesus in a tomb that is in the lower half on the right composition. Background with trees next to each other suggesting woods. Straight lines diagonally cross the composition of which in the upper on the right half, where several cross no red spot.

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  • Title: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb
  • Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
  • Creator Nationality: Brazilian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Date: 1944
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w23.5 x h24.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: religious:religious scenes:Stations of the Cross, religious:Jesus, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil , colored pencil
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1059
  • Inscription: Signed in dedication in bottom left corner "23-IV-60 PARA minha amiga Lea com os votos de felicidades pelo dia de hoje abraço de Portinari”. Undated
  • Function: Study for the painting “Jesus is Laid in the Tomb” [FCO 2493], Fourteenth Station of the Via Crucis
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2317
Projeto Portinari

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