Talk:The Descent from the Cross (van der Weyden)

I know that there is some scholarship on the pose of the female figure at right (her hands clasped together). I cannot recall the scholar, and cannot find it among my files. Any ideas? I'll have a look in my notes at some point, but there is much more to this picture than the data I have thus inserted.HansEworth (talk) 23:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Figure on right is Mary Magdalene. I have added some more material based De Vos's book. Commentary I have read on this picture focuses on how unstable these figures are, each is writhing or falling, or moving, giving dynamic force to composition. Mick gold (talk) 11:40, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Good work. Ceoil (talk) 14:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Swoon of the Virgin
"In her history of the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Miri Rubin writes that artists began to depict the "Swoon of the Virgin" or Mary swooning at the foot of the cross, in the early 15th century, and that van der Weyden's Descent was the most influential painting to show this moment." - No, it was far earlier than that, in the 11th century according to Gertrud Schiller, & according to Nicholas Penny: "about half of the surviving paintings of the Crucifixion made between 1300 and 1500 will be found to include the Virgin fainting." (p. 26, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume I, 2004, National Gallery Publications Ltd, ISBN 1857099087). These include Giotto, Duccio etc etc. Johnbod (talk) 14:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

fear of the Lord God Almighty
We have lost that fear, like fools we are confused. Caumack (talk) 05:06, 23 March 2016 (UTC)