The entombment of Christ is one of several standard representations of Jesus’s suffering and death at the hands of the Romans. According to the Christian tradition Pontius Pilate granted Joseph of Arimathea permission to take Christ’s body down from the cross for burial. In addition, the gospel according to John...
Scent masquerade!
This iconic narrative from the Judeo-Christian tradition is full of olfactory references that are topical today: