
The Entombment (Caravaggio)
1603 · Vatican Museums, Rome
The corner of the stone slab juts out of the picture so the body looks about to be laid down in the room with you.
★ 7.8

The corner of the stone slab juts out of the picture so the body looks about to be laid down in the room with you.

Isaac is shouting under his father's hand and the ram has already arrived at the right. Caravaggio gives the scene no ceremony whatsoever.

None of these flowers bloom in the same season. Bruegel assembled the bouquet from studies made across the whole year, and let petals droop.

Hundreds of minutely painted fish, baskets and hagglers. They called him Velvet Bruegel for exactly this kind of finish.