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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.
Van der Weyden masterfully handles the figures depicted with a limited background space. At the edges, the opposing yet complementary movements of Saint John and Mary Magdalene close the composition.
24 gru 2015 · Weyden, Rogier van der. Tournai (Belgium), 1399 - Brussels (Belgium), 1464. The Descent from the Cross. The Descent from the Cross was painted for the Chapel of Our Lady Outside the Walls at Leuven, which was founded in the fourteenth century by the Great Crossbowmen`s Guild, sold in 1798 and demolished soon afterwards.
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. It is the earliest painting that can be safely attributed to Van der Weyden - dendrochronological (tree) analysis dates it to around 1435 - and it is ...
The Descent from the Cross. The Master of the Holy Blood, an uninventive and repetitive artist who appears to have been trained in Antwerp and to have settled in Bruges, takes his name from a Lamentation altarpiece in the Heilig Bloedmuseum, Bruges.
1430-35. Descent from the Cross. Considered to be Van der Weyden's masterpiece, Descent from the Cross depicts the crucified Christ being lowered from the cross by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
The Descent from the Cross/or Deposition of Christ, or Descent of Christ from the Cross, is a panel painting by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden created c. 1435, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. The crucified Christ is lowered from the cross, his lifeless body held by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
