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Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch: [roːˈɣiːr vɑn dər ˈʋɛidə(n)]; 1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464), initially known as Roger de le Pasture (French: [ʁɔʒe d(ə) la pastyʁ]), was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
The Descent from the Cross c. 1435.Oil on oak panel, 220cm × 262 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid The Descent from the Cross (or Deposition of Christ, or Descent of Christ from the Cross, or in Flemish Kruisafneming) is a panel painting by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden created c. 1435, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
The view with the wings folded of six panels with the donors kneeling in the far wings. The Beaune Altarpiece (or The Last Judgement) is a large polyptych c. 1443–1451 altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden, painted in oil on oak panels with parts later transferred to canvas.
The Lamentation of Christ is an oil-on-panel painting of the common subject of the Lamentation of Christ by the Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden, dating from around 1460–1463 and now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Rogier van der Weyden: Portrait of Francesco d'Este ; Artist: Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400–1464) Alternative names: ... Date of birth/death: 1399 or 1400
Rogier van der Weyden, Head of the Virgin, silverpoint on white prepared paper, Circa 1455-1464, Louvre, Paris. Friedrich Winkler and others think this was by van der Weyden himself, an attribution widely accepted today. [5] At the bottom there is an inscription mistakenly attributing it to Albrecht Dürer.
The Braque Triptych is the only surviving devotional work by van der Weyden known to be painted for private rather than public display. [1] The altarpiece was probably commissioned by either Jehan Braque of Tournai or, more likely, his wife Catherine de Brabant – possibly after Jehan's sudden and early death in 1452.
Many images are ambiguous, presumably deliberately, and can be read as the Virgin either feeling faint, or simply stricken with grief. One major work to depict the Swoon is The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden (Prado, c. 1435), in which the body of the Virgin, with eyes closed, is parallel to that of her son just above. [9]