certainly one of the world's finest paintings

certainly one of the world's finest paintings

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Edward w Pritchard

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Rogier Van Der Weyden's 1435 painting " Deposition" displayed at the Prado, Madrid Spain is certainly one of the world's finest paintings.

Christ is dead and about to be removed from the cross and will be placed in his Mother's lap. Mary in grief and agony has fainted.

Some  men support the body of Christ as it is lowered, a man and a woman support Mary as she swoons. One women, another Mary cries genuine tears of grief and another Mary, Mary Magdalene cries and prays.

Van Der Weyden presents extreme emotion but it is personal, contained and appropriate.

If you were there and saw the holes in the backs of the hands and feet would you be able to believe that this crumbled dead body would rise again? Could you see anything more than a dead man?

Mindfulness. Is it an appropriate philosophy for us to have to always see things clearly and rationally?

Could you believe in resurrection if you helped lower a limp lifeless form from a bleak Roman cross?

 How do we reconcile what are our eyes see, our mind knows and our hearts feel?

Author saw this picture. It's a haunting image.