Descent From The Cross - Selected Examples

Selected Examples

• Codex Grecus 510 (9th century Byzantine, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris)
• Codex Egberti (ca. 980, Trier city library).
• St Albans Psalter - English Romanesque miniature (ca. 1130-45)
• Externsteine relief (12th century)
• Toros Roslin (13th century)
• Byzantine Museum of Kastoria (ca. 1400)
• Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross (ca. 1435, Museo del Prado, Madrid)
• Nicolas Mostaert (1579)
• Rubens (1611–14, Antwerp cathedral) The Descent from the Cross
• Rembrandt (1634, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
• Athens, Benaki Museum No. 3001 (ca. 1700)
• Gustave Doré
• Max Beckmann (1917)
• Enrique Miguel de la Vega
• The Deposition from the Cross (1528) by Jacopo Pontormo at the Capponi Chapel in the church of Santa Felicita, in Florence.
• Fra Angelico, Deposition of Christ, executed between 1432 and 1434, now in the National Museum of San Marco, Florence.
• Caravaggio, The Entombment of Christ (1602–1603), now at the Vatican Pinacoteca.
• Eastern Orthodox Icons of the Descent from the Cross.
• The Epitaphios used during Holy Week
• The Antimension
• David Folley, The Descent From The Cross (1995–1996), now at the Jesus Chapel, St. Andrew's Church, Wickford, Essex.