The Descent from the Cross (Greek: Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19:38–42). In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The Descent from the Cross is the 13th Station of the Cross, and is also the sixth of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Other figures not mentioned in the Gospels who are often included in depictions of this subject include John the Evangelist, who is sometimes depicted supporting a fainting Mary (as in the work below by Rogier van der Weyden), and Mary Magdalene. The Gospels mention an undefined number of women as watching the crucifixion, including The Three Marys, (Mary Salome being mentioned in Mark 15:40), and also that the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene saw the burial (Mark 15:47). These and further women and unnamed male helpers are often shown.

(Text from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_the_Cross)


1. THE LIFE OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT:

Abraham Vaikus | Music
https://www.abrahamvaikus.com

Museo Nacional del Prado | Paintings
https://www.museodelprado.es

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) | Bible
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Douay-Rheims-1899-American-Edition-DRA-Bible/#booklist


2. PAINTINGS WITH TIMESTAMP IN THE VIDEO:

00:00 - [ INTRO ]

00:05 - GALLEGO, FERNANDO: Pietà (1465 - 1470)
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/pieta/3dde0001-e1c7-4595-a282-1e4dc9e40f35

00:58 - DYCK, ANTHONY VAN: Pietà (Ca. 1629)
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/pieta/f89676d9-34cc-46d9-b232-571faf9894ba

01:47 - MORALES, LUIS DE: Pietà (1565 - 1570)
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/pieta/58803f48-3ae7-40ce-9811-ee3e878f1a81

02:32 - GIAQUINTO, CORRADO: The Descent from the Cross (Ca. 1754)
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-descent-from-the-cross/09c96d3c-2151-4d58-9f82-e4e993492bfd

03:21 - KEMPENEER, PIETER: The Descent from the Cross (Ca. 1570)
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-descent-from-the-cross/51075288-a156-4c58-96dc-d021cb970e7a


3. BIBLE TEXT:

John 19:38–42
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

39 And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

40 They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

41 Now there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.

42 There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.


(FULL TEXT: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+19%3A38%E2%80%9342&version=DRA)