Illustration: 73D71x4

General

Title descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)
Type Illustration
Sizes 113x75
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 73D71
Iconclass description descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Matthew) 2 F3r
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Matthew) vol.2 p.F3r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Mark) 2 I2r
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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (Matthew) vol.2 p.F3r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.b

Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (Mark) vol.2 p.I2r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.b

References

Literature references

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1977 Chapter 2 An Introduction to the Woodcuts of the Seventeenth Century, with a discussion of the German woodcut Broadsides of the Seventeenth Century (by Ingeborg Lehmann-Haupt), New York

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1983 Christoffel van Sichem A Family of Dutch 17th Century Woodcut Artists, in: Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XXVII, Christoffel (1) van Sichem to Herman Specht, pp. 274-306

Bibliographic references

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