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Pedro Machuca
The Descent from the Cross
Literature
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Pedro Machuca
The Descent from the Cross
141 x 128 cm
Oil on board
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Literature
Santiago Alcolea Blanch,
The Prado Museum
, Barcelona, 2008, fig. 17
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73D71
Descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)