The Art Bulletin Vol. 35, No. 1, Mar., 1953 Compassio and Co-redemptio in Roger van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Ch. Piot, "Un ...

Rogier van der Weyden’s The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald in the Golden Chamber (around 1435-50) We know precious little about the life of Rogier van der Weyden, one of the most influential ...

The religious paintings of Rogier van der Weyden are full of emotional power, ranging from the tenderness of a mother’s love to the intensity of Jesus’ death. Skip to Main Content.

In Van der Weyden’s version (the best by anyone), Luke is drawing with a stylus, so he’s unencumbered by painting paraphernalia. What he’s doing is very focused, very direct.

By many estimates, as much as two-thirds of the oeuvre of the Old Masters—artists like Leonardo, Michelangelo and Titian—is considered lost. Many of those works are known through archival ...