Chapel 41 - Jesus wrapped in the Shroud

The scene depicts the moment when the body of Jesus, once laid down from the cross, after being sprinkled with fragrant aromas, is wrapped in the Shroud. The background shows the paintings of the city of Jerusalem and Calvary with the three crosses.
The chapel already existed at the end of the fifteenth century, when it was a single space with the previous one and housed a group of polychrome wooden statues called "Stone of Unction", the work of the De Donati brothers, now preserved in the Pinacoteca of Varallo. The sculptures were replaced in 1826 with a new group in terracotta by the neoclassical sculptor Luigi Marchesi. At the end of the century the Valsesian painter Pier Celestino Gilardi frescoed its walls.