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It is significant in understanding the ways in which the scriptures function as a whole that our Lord Jesus Christ not only died, but specifically died by crucifixion. As an instrument of torture and death perfected by the Romans, the cross is an odd choice to be the primary symbol of a religion. Not only does it represent a terrible death for which the word “excruciating” was coined to describe the pain involved, it was also a means of public humiliation. Crucified individuals were…

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Descent from the Cross - Rogier Van Der Weyden | Prado museum Madrid Descent From The Cross, Museum Paintings, Rogier Van Der Weyden, Ap Art History, Fra Angelico, Medieval Paintings, Jesus Of Nazareth, Jan Van Eyck, Spirit Of God

The painting represents an altarpiece of carved polychrome figures with the iconography of the deposition of Christ from the cross. The shape of the support with its projecting upper part and figures set inside a box with a gold background and sides, as well as the painted tracery in the corners, make it a depiction of a characteristic fifteenth-century sculpted altarpiece shrine.

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