DESCENT Nicodemus ; the Virgin, swooning, is sup- Scliidone, ib. ; Francesco Francia, ib.; ported by Mary Magdalen, while the two Sodoma, Siena Gallery ; Barthel Bruyn, other Marys bend over her ; beside them, < Dresden Gallery ; Alessandro Tiarini, Bolog- St John, standing, with outstretched arms, j na Gallery, Brera, Milan ; Rubens, Lille Mu- Painted in fresco in 1541, by order of Prin- seum, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Eustacho cess Elena d' Orsini ; transferred to canvas Lesueur, Louvre ; Michael Wohlgetuuth, in 1811 by Camuccini ; re- stored by Palmaroli. En- graved by G. B. de Caval- leriis ; G. L. Dame ; R. van Audenaerde ; F. Ras- taini; P. Toschi (1837). Poussin declared this the third picture in the world, ranking it next after Raph- ael's Transfiguration and Doinenichino's Commun- ion of St. Jerome. Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 52 ; Grimm, Leben Michelangelos, ii. 394 ; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 309 ; W. & W., ii. GOO; Nagler, xiii. 118 ; La- rousse, vi. 537 ; Lanzi, Storia pittorica, i. 149. By Rogier van der Wey- den, Escorial, Spain ; can- vas, H. 6 ft 6 in. x 8 ft. 7 in. The body of Christ lowered from the cross by Joseph of Arimathsea and Nicodemus ; St. John and one of the Marys sustain the swooning Virgin ; the other Marys wailing. Painted for Chapel of Our Lady of Victory, St. Peter's Church, Louvain ; taken to Spain by Queen Mary of Hungary. Replicas or cop- ies : Madrid Museum (by M. Coxcyen) ; S. Trinidad, Madrid ; Berlin Museum ; St. Peter's, Louvain ; Liverpool Institute. Madrazo ; Museo Espafiol de Antiguedades ; Fiirster, xL Subject treated also by Ludovico Cigoli, Pal. Pitti, Florence; Pietro Perugino, ib. ; Correggio, Parma Gallery ; Bartolommeo Descent from the Cross, Daniel* di Volterra, S. Trinitl de' Monti, Rome. Liverpool Gallery; Filippino Lippi, Florence Academy ; Cima da Conegliano, Galleria Estense, Modena ; Garofalo, PaL Borghese, Rome, Naples Museum ; Luca Giordano, Venice Academy ; Anton Van Dyck, Ant- werp Museum ; Peter Pourbus, Bruges Academy ; Hans Memliiig, Hospital of St. 3%
