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This painting depicts<br />
Jesus being lowered<br />
from the cross with<br />
Mary in the<br />
foreground passing<br />
out in shock and<br />
horror. In this painting<br />
Mary has been<br />
painted wearing the<br />
blue made from Lapis<br />
Lazuli. This was<br />
common due to the<br />
fact that the colour<br />
was very expensive<br />
and churches only<br />
wanted the virgin<br />
Mary to be painted<br />
wearing, to show her<br />
as a high respected<br />
holy figure.<br />
Rogier has created a very expressive painting<br />
conveying the emotions of the figures. By the<br />
expressions and positioning of their bodies you can<br />
clearly see they are all in pain and are distraught.<br />
In this painting Rogier has used<br />
echoing forms between the virgin<br />
Mary and Jesus. This is very<br />
successful at showing the viewer the<br />
pain and despair of Mary.<br />
The other figures are evenly distributed with three to the left and three to the<br />
right, with two in the middle behind Jesus. This successfully draws your<br />
attention towards the centre of the painting with Mary and Jesus because<br />
having a symmetrical composition to the background and side figures<br />
makes the viewer look to the centre and more irregularly placed figures.
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