ENTOMBMENT BY RAPHAEL

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Among the many works on love in the gallery, one exception is the painting Entombment by Raphael, his dramatic masterpiece from 1507. It was commissioned by a gentlewoman of Perugia whose son had been killed: the mother is just like Mary, unconscious due to the pain.

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