The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
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Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
About the painting
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, sometimes referred to as Dead Christ, is an oil and tempera on limewood painting created by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520 and 1522.
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It shows a life-size, grotesque depiction of the stretched and unnaturally thin body of Jesus Christ lying in his tomb. Holbein shows the dead Son of God after he has suffered the fate of an ordinary human. The painting is held in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
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Image: Hans Holbein the Younger; Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0