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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.
24 Δεκ 2015 · 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.
Deposition. by Dr. David Drogin and Dr. Beth Harris. You can taste the tears …. Rogier captures grieving bodies with meticulousness and compositional rhythm.
The Deposition was a popular theme in the fifteenth century because of its potential for dramatic, personally engaging portrayal. Rogier sets the act of removing Jesus’ body from the cross on the shallow stage of a gilt wooden box, just like the case of a carved and painted altarpiece.
The Deposition was an altarpiece, intended for the chapel of the Confraternity of the Archers of Leuven, who commissioned it. (The two small crossbows in the lower spandrels of the tracery in the picture refer to the Confraternity.).
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).
Rogier van der Weyden (born 1399/1400, Tournai [Belgium]—died June 18, 1464, Brussels) was a Northern Renaissance painter who, with the possible exception of Jan van Eyck, was the most influential northern European artist of his time.
