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Hans Holbein the Younger: The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb

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Alternative names	Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description	-German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	1497 or 1498 date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543 date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death	Augsburg	London
Work location	Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
Authority file	: Q48319 VIAF: 4945401 ISNI: 0000000120987816 ULAN: 500005259 LCCN: n81117179 NLA: 36275979 WorldCat

Title

English: The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Depicted people

Jesus

Date

1521

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 30.5 cm (12 in); width: 200 cm (78.7 in)

Collection

Kunstmuseum Basel

	Native name	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Location	Basel
	Coordinates	47° 33′ 15″ N, 7° 35′ 39″ E
	Established	1931
	Website	www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
	Authority file	: Q194626 VIAF: 158993979 ISNI: 0000000122601681 ULAN: 500279332 LCCN: n79079575 OSM: 5279724 WorldCat

Accession number

318 (Kunstmuseum Basel)

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger

(b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)

The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb 1521 Oil on wood, 30,5 x 200 cm Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle

Portraits apart, this is perhaps Holbein's most striking image. Since Dostoevsky's observations in the nineteenth century, which dwelt on the forbidding aspects of physical decay and bodily corruption, the painting has been seen as the product of a mind steeped in the apocalyptic horrors that were unleashed by the first phase of the Reformation. But what is known of Holbein's phlegmatic interpretation of the human condition belies this interpretation. Modern authorities suggest that Holbein intended to stress the sheer miracle of Resurrection and its imminence, since the minutely-observed level of decay in the gangrenous wounds suggests that we see Christ's body three days after death.

An inscription in brush on paper, 'IESUS NAZARENUS REX IUDAEORUM', borne above the painting by angels holding the instruments of the Passion, precludes its use as a predella panel (at the base of an altarpiece), as does our viewpoint of the body. Instead, a role as an object of contemplation, a reminder of Christ's sufferings and mortification and his subsequent triumph, is suggested. Such practices flourished from the late middle ages and account in part for the many representations of the dead Christ from Lombardy (the Bellinis in Venice also produced several). Mantegna's famous version grapples with artistic as well as religious problems in its dramatic foreshortening, which are not fully resolved. By contrast, Holbein's draughtsmanship appears masterly.

An unverified tradition asserts that a drowned body fished out of the Rhine served the painter as a model for the figure of Christ lying in the tomb. Even if it is not true, the legend is a telling testament to the terrifying realism of Holbein's depiction of a corpse in a state of rigor mortis.

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Author: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Title: The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb Time-line: 1501-1550 School: German Form: painting

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