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unusual facts about descent from the Cross


Descent from the Cross

David Folley, The Descent From The Cross (1995–1996), now at the Jesus Chapel, St. Andrew's Church, Wickford, Essex.


Flemish Baroque painting

Painted for the Arquebusiers' guild, the Descent from the Cross triptych (1611–14; Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp)—with side wings depicting the Visitation and Presentation in the Temple, and exterior panels showing St. Christopher and the Hermit—is an important reflection of Counter-Reformation ideas about art combined with Baroque naturalism, dynamism and monumentality.

Wimmis

The north-west corner houses a painting of the procession to Calvary and fragments of the Crucifixion and descent from the Cross.


see also

Domenico Carpinoni

He painted a Birth of St. John the Baptist and Descent from the Cross for the principal church of Clusone a Transfiguration for the Chiesa di Monesterolo in the Valle Cavallina, and an Adoration of the Magi for the church of the Padri Osservanti at Lovere.