Currently not on view
Entombment,
ca. 1593
Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss, 1564–1609
2004-272
Joseph Heintz, official court painter of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, likely made the Entombment to emulate Federico Barocci’s altarpiece of 1580–82 in the church of Santa Croce in Senigallia, near Urbino. This small painting adheres to Barocci’s visual formulas without quoting literally from the earlier work, and is oriented more explicitly toward the emperor’s taste for the theatrical and intellectually stimulating.
More About This Object
Information
Title
Entombment
Dates
ca. 1593
Maker
Medium
Oil on copper
Dimensions
50.2 × 39.5 cm (19 3/4 × 15 9/16 in.)
frame: 67 × 56.5 × 5.9 cm (26 3/8 × 22 1/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2004-272
Place Made
Europe, Switzerland
Culture
Type
Subject
Private collection (Italy); Jack Kilgore & Co., NY; 2004 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2004," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 64 (2005): p. 91-135., pp. 98, 102
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 349
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Juana Gutiérrez Haces, Painting of the kingdoms: shared identities: territories of the Spanish monarchy, 16th-18th centuries, (México, D.F.: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2008-2009).
, p. 130, 132 (illus.), 133
