Deposition of Christ
Medium
Brush and brown ink, heightened with red chalk, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
22.2 × 15.9 cm (8 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
ink with chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
96146
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...