Who painted “The Descent from the Cross”?

“The Descent from the Cross” was painted by Rogier van der Weyden in 1440s. Where to see it: Museo del Prado.

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Rogier van der Weyden: intense emotion in sharp, angular folds of drapery, tearful faces and figures arranged like sculpture on a shallow stage.

Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464), initially Roger de la Pasture (French:), was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. Wikipedia

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More by Rogier van der Weyden

“Portrait of a Lady”, 1460
“Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin”
“Columba Triptych”, 1453
“The Last Judgment (Beaune Altarpiece)”, 1443
“The Magdalen Reading”, 1445
“The Seven Sacraments”, 1453
“Portrait of a Young woman with a Winged Bonnet”, 1440
“Lamentation of Christ”, 1450