id: 295476 accession number: 2017.5 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.5 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:14.305000 The Entombment, c. 1596. Giovanni de' Vecchi (Italian, 1536–1615). Pen and brown ink, brush and purple-pink wash with admixtures of white, and brush and brown wash, with graphite underdrawing; squared for transfer with graphite; sheet: 20.2 x 14.7 cm (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.); secondary support: 25.7 x 21.3 cm (10 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2017.5 title: The Entombment title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1596 creation date earliest: 1591 creation date latest: 1596 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: Pen and brown ink, brush and purple-pink wash with admixtures of white, and brush and brown wash, with graphite underdrawing; squared for transfer with graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni de' Vecchi (Italian, 1536–1615) - artist Italian painter, 1536-1615 --- measurements: Sheet: 20.2 x 14.7 cm (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 25.7 x 21.3 cm (10 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Acquisitions opening date: 2018-03-17T04:00:00 Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (03/17/2018-06/06/2018): "Recent Acquisitions 2014-2017" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: By the end of the 1500s, Michelangelo’s treatment of the nude male had permeated artistic practice. Some artists (today called Mannerists) began to stray from the master’s grounding in human anatomy, emphasizing instead the expressive potential that Michelangelo brought to bear on the human form. To make an emotional impact, Giovanni de’ Vecchi created fluid figures with exaggerated proportions, such as the central figure of Christ that appears here. De’ Vecchi used pen and purplish watercolor to render the forms of the dead Christ surrounded by Saint John the Apostle, Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea, the grief-stricken Virgin Mary, Saint Mary Magdalene (at Christ’s feet), and their companions, who adoringly convey his body to the tomb in the upper left. This drawing was preparatory for an altarpiece for the church of Santa Prassede in Rome. wall description: This spirited drawing is a preparatory study for an altarpiece of the same subject that Giovanni de’ Vecchi painted in 1596 for the church of Santa Prassede in Rome. Here, the artist used pen and violet watercolor to render the forms of the dead Christ surrounded by Saint John the Apostle, Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea, the grief-stricken Virgin Mary, Saint Mary Magdalene (at Christ’s feet), and their companions who adoringly convey his body to the open tomb visible in the upper left background. In this working drawing, the artist experimented with alternate poses for Nicodemus, the figure holding Christ’s body at left, as well as the Virgin, whose head is drawn twice at center right. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS P. Tosini, "Rivedendo Giovanni de' Vecchi," in Storia dell'arte, 82, 1994, p. 323, note 89 page number: url: A. Pinelli, "Pittura e Controriforma, 'Convenienza' e miticismo in Giovanni de' Vecchi," in Associazione di ricerca e documentazione per la Storia dell'arte. Ricerche di storia dell'arte. Rome: Bulzoni editore, VI, 1977, p. 58, cat. no. 5, fig. 21 page number: 58 url: Knorn-Ezernieks, Nicola. Giovanni de' Vecchi: seine Stellung in der römischen Malerei um 1600 (Hildesheim-Zurich-New York, 2013., pp. 247, 330-32, cat. no. 63, illustrated page number: 247, 330-32 url: Navarrete Prieto, Benito, and Gonzalo Redín Michaus. Disegni spagnoli e italiani del Cinquecento della Biblioteca Nacional de España, Roma : De Luca editori d'arte, 2020, 228. page number: Reproduced: p. 228, fig. 58.1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.5/2017.5_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.5/2017.5_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.5/2017.5_full.tif