The Entombment of Christ with Donor Portraits

ArtistWorkshop of Benedetto Briosco Italian, Milanese, circa 1460–after 1514

ArtistWorkshop of Tomaso Cazzaniga Italian, Milanese, active circa 1481–1504

Datecirca 1480

MediumMarble

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth (unmounted): 11 3/8 × 7 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (28.9 × 19.4 × 5.7 cm)
height, width, and depth (mounted): 11 3/8 × 7 5/8 × 2 1/2 in. (28.9 × 19.4 × 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Special Gift Fund

Object number58.4.17

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Published ReferencesMay Davis Hill, "Checklist of Additional Sculptures in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), listed 32.

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w) 41, fig. 11.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 40, 42, illus. fig. 2-4 (color).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w).
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