Entombment of Christ. The Lamentation of Christ is an oil-on-panel painting of the common subject of the Lamentation of Christ by the Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden, dating from around 1460-1463 and now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
The work is perhaps the altarpiece Our Lord's sepulchre and other five figures which appear in the inventory made in 1492 at the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, and which decorated his Villa at Careggi since as early as 1482. The panel was thus one of the works commissioned by the Medici to van der Weyden, including the Medici Madonna now at Städel of Frankfurt, which has been also assigned to the artist's trip to Italy in 1450.
Another hypothesis is that the panel was part of a lost triptych painted for Lionello d'Este of Ferrara, and mentioned in 1449, or that it was the painting described by Giorgio Vasari as Hans Memling's. The panel adopts the same scheme in Fra Angelico's Pietà for the predella of the San Marco Altarpiece, now at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, confirming that the Flemish artist visited Florence during his pilgrimage in Italy of 1449-1450, as mentioned in De viribus illustribus by Bartolomeo Facio.
The work was later part of the collections of cardinal Carlo de' Medici, being moved to the Uffizi Gallery in 1666. Filippo Baldinucci described it as a work by Albrecht Dürer.
In 1989 it was still assigned to Hans Memling by some scholar
The work is perhaps the altarpiece Our Lord's sepulchre and other five figures which appear in the inventory made in 1492 at the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, and which decorated his Villa at Careggi since as early as 1482. The panel was thus one of the works commissioned by the Medici to van der Weyden, including the Medici Madonna now at Städel of Frankfurt, which has been also assigned to the artist's trip to Italy in 1450.
Another hypothesis is that the panel was part of a lost triptych painted for Lionello d'Este of Ferrara, and mentioned in 1449, or that it was the painting described by Giorgio Vasari as Hans Memling's. The panel adopts the same scheme in Fra Angelico's Pietà for the predella of the San Marco Altarpiece, now at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, confirming that the Flemish artist visited Florence during his pilgrimage in Italy of 1449-1450, as mentioned in De viribus illustribus by Bartolomeo Facio.
The work was later part of the collections of cardinal Carlo de' Medici, being moved to the Uffizi Gallery in 1666. Filippo Baldinucci described it as a work by Albrecht Dürer.
In 1989 it was still assigned to Hans Memling by some scholar
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