Rogier van der Weyden - Descent from the Cross Canvas Print

Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden. Great painting titled Descent from the Cross, made by Rogier van der Weyden. About Rogier van der Weyden Rogier van der Weyden or Rogier de le Pasture was an Early Netherlandish painter. His surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits. Although his life was generally uneventful, he was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime. His paintings were exported – or taken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fifteenth-century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and largely due to changing taste, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid 18th century. His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the following 200 years; today he is known, after Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third of the three great Early Netherlandish artists, and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.