-Anticlassical composition -Linear bodies twisting around one another -In the center of the circular composition is a grouping of hands -Hands seem disembodied -No ground line for many figures; what is Mary sitting on? -Elongation of bodies -Some androgynous figures -No weeping, just yearning -High-keyed colors, perhaps taking into account the darkness of the chapel is placed in.
--The painting is called Entombment of Christ, although there is no tomb, just carrying of Jesus’s lifeless body -It is placed over the altar of a family chapel near the right from the entrance of Santa Felicita in Florence -The composition and Mannerist style may reflect the instability in European politics brought on by the Protestant Reformation. -There is a self-portrait on the extreme right of the painting