- The Descent from the Cross (van der Weyden) - Wikipedia
The Descent from the Cross (or Deposition of Christ, or Descent of Christ from the Cross, or in Flemish Kruisafneming) is a panel painting by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden created c 1435, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid
- The Descent from the Cross - Gallerie dellAccademia di Venezia
The composition is perfectly balanced with the elongated bodies of Christ and his mother forming a cross while an ideal diagonal line can be traced by the two male figures on the left, which is mirrored by a diagonal line ideally linking the three female figures on the right
- Descent from the Cross - Wikipedia
The Descent from the Cross (Greek: Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19, John 19:38–42)
- The Descent from the Cross - Museo Nacional del Prado
There are accounts of Christ’s descent from the cross in the gospels According to these texts, after Jesus died on the cross – in the exact spot where tradition had it that Adam was buried, as indicated by the skull and thighbone in the foreground – his body was lowered by his followers and interred in the tomb … | +
- Descent from the Cross | History, Description, Facts - Britannica
Descent from the Cross, triptych created by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1611–14 for the altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, commissioned by the city’s Guild of the Arquebusiers (“Musketeers”)
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Amongst the pupils and followers of Christ we see the young St John the Evangelist at the foot of the Cross and Mary Magdalene The artist's great skill in giving the bodies a sculptural feel, shown in the deliberately complex foreshortening, is evidence of the lessons he learned in Italy
- Descent From the Cross (Deposition), Roger Van der Weyden . . .
One of the greatest religious paintings of the Flemish school, The Descent from the Cross (Deposition of Christ) by Roger van der Weyden depicts the crucified Christ being lowered from the cross
- The Descent from the Cross - Museo Nacional del Prado
An example of this is, once again, the canvas of The Descent from the Cross (P00361), in which the dramatic effect is magnified by the use of strongly contrasting colours
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