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The Deposition from the Cross and the Entombment
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
These two panels are probably fragments from a larger ensemble devoted to the Passion of Christ. The artist followed established conventions for depicting grief and sorrow through gesture. This approach was characteristic of the stiff, rather formulaic style derived from Greek and Byzantine models that was prevalent in 13th-century Italy.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDe kruisafneming en graflegging. c. 1290. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
