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Descent from the Cross
Robert Campin and Assistant
about 1430
Oil on panel, 148.5 (201 cm - elevated part) x 258.5 cm
Madrid, Museo del Prado
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| | | Inscription on the belt of the Virgin: IHESUSMARIA.
This panel is a fragment of an altarpiece. It formed the central panel of the high altar in a Marian church, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe-van-Ginderbuiten, outside the ancient city walls of Louvain. (The church belonged to the guild of crossbowmen of Louvain, the so-called Great Guild.) Like all large altarpieces at the time, it probably had movable wings. Two forms of altarpiece are possible; either a triptych with two large wings of a polyptych with four vertical wings and two small wings affixed to the elevated central part.
Nicodemus was identified as a portrait of a donor.
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Descent from the Cross, detail | |
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Descent from the Cross, detail with Nicodemus | |
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