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 Bible Art

Descent From the Cross
Artist: Rogier van der Weyden
 1430-35    Painting

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Considered to be Van der Weyden's masterpiece, Descent from the Cross depicts the crucified Christ being lowered from the cross by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. Packed into the shallow composition are several other figures, including Mary Cleophas, John the Evangelist, Mary Salome, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene. 

This painting is oil on oak panel and is in  Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Descent of Noah from Ararat
Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky
 1889    Painting

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The people in Aivazovsky's painting are not just Biblical figures, they are Aivazovsky's dreamy imagining of his own romanticized Armenian roots combined with a vaguely conceived Orientalism that looked towards an old Constantinople and beyond for a sense of uncorrupted identity.  Aivazovsky produced hundreds of paintings like this, which sought to escape from those uncertain realities into a world of mythical certainties, for which Biblical symbolism was a convenient vehicle. 

This is an oil on canvas painting that is in the National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan.

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