• The Descent from the Cross is the central panel of a triptych painting by the Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1612–1614.
  • The Descent from the Cross has a discipline and restraint that clearly distinguishes it from the energy that exudes from the Raising of the Cross, painted just...
  • Peter Paul Rubens, Descent from the Cross.
  • Jesus’ descent from the cross was an idea Peter Paul Rubens returned to throughout his career.
  • Category:The Descent from the Cross (1612–1614, Antwerp) by Peter Paul Rubens: center panel.
  • The church itself has become a kind of museum holding numerous paintings, including Rubens’s Elevation of the Cross.
  • Descent from the Cross was created by Peter Paul Rubens, a prominent Baroque painter known for his mastery of dramatic and emotional storytelling...
  • The Descent from the Cross is the second of Rubens's great altarpieces for the Antwerp Cathedral.
  • Painted between 1612 and 1614, The Descent from the Cross forms the central part of a triptych created by Rubens for the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp.
  • The Elevation of the Cross was painted two years earlier than the Descent From the Cross, and we can see that Rubens style was evolving and refining...