Descent from the cross caravaggio biography

Scene depicted in art of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross

For other uses, see Descent from the Cross (disambiguation).

The Descent from the Cross (Greek: Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19, John 19:38–42).

In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century.

Descent from the cross caravaggio biography

Descent from the cross caravaggio biography summary

Descent from the cross weyden

Peter paul rubens, the raising of the cross

Entombment of christ pontormo

The Descent from the Cross is the 13th Station of the Cross, and is also the sixth of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Other figures not mentioned in the Gospels who are often included in depictions of this subject include John the Evangelist, who is sometimes depicted supporting a fainting Mary (as in the work below by Rogier van der Weyden), and Mary Magdalene.

The Gospels mention an undefined number of women as wat