Descent from the Cross

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Artist : Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

Title : Descent from the Cross

Object type: painting

Genre : religious art

Year : between 1612 and 1614

Medium : oil on panel

Dimensions : Height: 421 cm (165.7 in); Width: 311 cm (122.4 in)

Location: National Gallery, London

The Descent from the Cross or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as described in the art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art, the topic became famous in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The Descent from the Cross is the 13th Station of the Cross and is also the sixth of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Even in early paintings the details and posing of the composition, and especially the position of Christ's body, are varied. The scene was usually included in medieval cycles of the Life or the Passion of Christ, through the Crucifixion and the Entombment of Christ. The Lamentation of Christ, or Pietà, showing the body of Christ carried by Mary, may intervene between these two, and is common as an individual image, especially in sculpture. The posture of the body, showing Christ's body being carried to his tomb, and the Anointing of Christ's body, showing the body laid flat on the top of the tomb or a similarly shaped "anointing-stone" are other scenes that may be shown. This last is most important in Orthodox art, where it is shown on the Epitaphios.

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