The Burial of Christ

Christ is accompanied by John the Apostle and the women of Galilee, among who are found his mother, Mary, who holds his body, and Mary Magdalene, who kisses his hand. Miguel Cabrera represented this passage from Passion to the inside of a stone tomb with a view of the landscape at the background. Due to the topic and lobe-shaped form, this painting must have been part of a full iconographic representation of the life of Christ, in which other episodes of passion are included and which are mainly narrated in the Gospels of Luke and John.