Russian school of the XIX century. "Descent from the Cross". Oil on panel. Frame of the twentieth century. Size: 53 x 42 cm; 83 x 58 cm (frame).

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  Russian school of the XIX century. "Descent from the Cross". Oil on panel. Frame of the twentieth century. Size: 53 x 42 cm; 83 x 58 cm (frame). In this panel we see the scene of the descent from the cross of the dead body of Christ. Although it belongs to the Russian school of the XIX century, it is an Italian Baroque composition, close to the models established by Vladimir Borovikovski in the Russian Empire at the end of the XVIII century and the beginning of the XIX century, determined by its great scenographic and narrative sense. Formally, the work shows a marked hieratism, and manifests a special predilection for orthodox aesthetics in the golden decoration of the nimbuses. The treatment of light, which especially affects the figure of Christ, illuminating the main scene, responds to the knowledge of western baroque painters. The contained gesture of the characters, however, denotes a formation close to the academicist guidelines that prevailed in some painters of the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Each of the figures has been chiseled as a living sculpture, so that they occupy a resounding place in space, acquiring a variety of postures, foreshortenings and displaying studied choreographies. Iconographically, the figures of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus stand out, vigorous personages who unclaim and support Christ; the three Marys, who remain in the background, withdrawn in mournful expressions and gestures; the effigy of the dead Christ descending from the cross, with a perfectly defined anatomy, free of a deep pathos, and St. John the Evangelist who, with his back to the spectator, offers his help to pick up the body of the Savior. The work is contained in a 19th century frame of great decorativism, worked in carved and gilded wood.
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