Grablegung Christi

The Master of the Freising Passion painted this Entombment of Christ around 1485, one of the final scenes in his extensive Passion cycle for Freising Cathedral. The burial of Christ represented the solemn conclusion of the Passion before the triumph of the Resurrection. The Freising Master's treatment emphasizes the reverent grief of those who prepared Christ's body. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting.

Oil on panel with the Master's characteristic emotional intensity applied to the burial scene. The mourners' grief and the careful handling of Christ's body are rendered with devotional conviction.