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Peter Paul Rubens
The Descent from the Cross
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Peter Paul Rubens
The Descent from the Cross
48.7 x 52 cm
Oil on oak panel
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Literature
Natalya Gritsay and Natalya Babina,
The State Hermitage Museum catalogue of Flemish painting
, New Haven, 2008, nr. 298
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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)
Other works by Peter Paul Rubens
Lion Hunt
Isabella Brant
The Honeysuckle Bower
1609
The Temple of Janus
1634
The Descent from the Cross
1612