Rogier Van Der Weyden Analysis

The Descendent of the Messiah.
The Deposition of Christ painted by the artist Rogier van der Weyden is the most influential Netherlandish painting of Christ’s crucifixion. It is estimated that the piece was created in the year 1435 based on the work’s style, and because van der Weyden reached renown around this time. It was commissioned by the Greater Guild of Crossbowmen of Leuven in Belgium and was originally installed in the Chapel of Our Lady without Walls. Now it is located in the Museum of Prado in Madrid, Spain. When Civil War broke out in Spain in 1936, many religious works of art were destroyed. The Spanish Republic took action to protect its artistic masterpieces; The Descent from the Cross was evacuated from El Escorial to Valencia. …show more content…
In the middle a corpse of Jesus Christ, Nicodemus in red, and a young man on the ladder either servant of Nicodemus or of Joseph of Arimathea. On the left Joseph of Arimathea in the gold rope, Mary Cleophas another half-sister of The Virgin Mary, and the bold man in the back holding the jar is probably another servant.
This painting has typical characteristics from the 1400s Northern Renaissance like the complicated angular folds of drapery seen in The Virgin Mary and also the figures in the far end. The way the figures are about life size and crammed into a small space is a difference between this work and other contemporaries. This piece is confined to a very shallow space that pushes the figures up against the front of the picture plane. It truly enhances the dramatic quality. This goes hand on hand with the emotional behavior of the people on the …show more content…
In this image Christ is heading down to his mother’s lap, and van der Weyden has echoed their poses. The position that Christ goes in is very much like the one The Virgin Mary is in. This shows the relationship mother and son between them that is no shared with any other figure present. There is also another link with this position that comes to remind the resurrection of Christ because The Virgin Mary looks pale and has fainted, however; she will regain consciousness and wake up again like Christ will do within three

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