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Source Description
In this group from a carved altarpiece (Walters 61.148), Mary swoons in a visual echo of the dead body of Christ - her suffering paralleling his suffering. The figures loosely derived from the great painter Rogier van der Weyden's famous altarpiece of the Deposition, of around 1442 for the Church of Our Lady Outside the Walls in Louvain (in present day Belgium). This piece was carved at the same time as its companion piece focused on the dead body of Christ (Walters 61.148). Van der Weyden set out to imitate the three-dimensional modeling and shallow box-like space of contemporary sculpted wooden altarpieces. The sculptural quality of his painted masterpiece made it in turn an especially effective model for sculptors.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
4675
label
Figures from a Deposition
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obj
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sculpture
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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4675
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Figures from a Deposition
description
In this group from a carved altarpiece (Walters 61.148), Mary swoons in a visual echo of the dead body of Christ - her suffering paralleling his suffering. The figures loosely derived from the great painter Rogier van der Weyden's famous altarpiece of the Deposition, of around 1442 for the Church of Our Lady Outside the Walls in Louvain (in present day Belgium). This piece was carved at the same time as its companion piece focused on the dead body of Christ (Walters 61.148). Van der Weyden set out to imitate the three-dimensional modeling and shallow box-like space of contemporary sculpted wooden altarpieces. The sculptural quality of his painted masterpiece made it in turn an especially effective model for sculptors.
provenance
Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, December 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1475 (Late Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Wood
reliefs
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
32.5
height
39.5
depth
11.5
dimensionsRaw
12 13/16 x 15 9/16 x 4 1/2 in. (32.5 x 39.5 x 11.5 cm)
style
Gothic
Source extras
cul
Medieval European
RelatedObjects
20282
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paint on wood (oak)
creator_ids
15361
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MED
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2674
2870
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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