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Rembrandt often used religious scenes and imagery in his paintings. Rembrandt's family was quite wealthy, his father was a miller, and his mother a baker's daughter. Although he later created many biblical works, Rembrandt was not raised in the church. His mother was a Roman Catholic, and father belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church. [3]
The Descent from the Cross is a 1633 painting of the Descent from the Cross by Rembrandt. It is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. It is a companion piece to Rembrandt's later The Raising of the Cross. [1]
The Deposition (Raphael) The Descent from the Cross (Rembrandt, 1633) The Descent from the Cross (Rembrandt, 1634) The Descent from the Cross (Rembrandt, 1650–1652) Volterra Deposition; The Deposition (Rubens) The Descent from the Cross (Rubens, 1612–1614) The Descent from the Cross (Rubens, 1618) The Descent from the Cross (Rubens)
Rosso Fiorentino. Descent from the Cross. 1521.Oil on wood. 375 × 196 cm. Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra, Italy.. 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).
Christ with a Staff (1660s) Christ with a Staff or St James the Less is a painting by a follower of Rembrandt, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was also known as Christ in 1854 and exhibited in 1933 as The Pilgrim. [1] The picture is in Rembrandt's style of the 1660s and may have been painted in his workshop. [1]
Christ Presented to the People, also known as Ostentatio Christi or Ecce Homo, is a drypoint print by Rembrandt van Rijn which exists in eight states, all c.1655. It is one of the two largest prints made by Rembrandt, about 15 by 18 inches (38 cm × 46 cm), similar to his 1653 engraving of The Three Crosses .
There are multiple versions of Rembrandt's Head of Christ which are in the possession internationally of cultural institutions and individuals. During the course of the 19th-century it was supposed that these similar heads were based on a "Jewish model" (leading some to suppose that Rembrandt himself was Jewish, since he lived in what was considered the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam).
The Entombment of Christ (c. 1633-1635) by Rembrandt The Entombment of Christ is an oil-on-oak panel painting by Rembrandt believed to be dated around c. 1624. It measures 32.2 x 40.5 cm. The composition is a variant of a painting of the same subject now in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich. In 1783, the Scottish anatomist William Hunter bequeathed it to University College (now the University of ...