The BBC Documentary The Private Life of a Masterpiece argued that a rendition of this scene housed at the Prado may be the most important painting of the fifteenth century.
The BBC Documentary The Private Life of a Masterpiece argued that a rendition of this scene housed at the Prado may be the most important painting of the fifteenth century. That version of this scene was brought to Switzerland in a train during the Spanish Civil War. A version of this scene betrays the influence of the artist's teacher Campin in its realistic faces, such as the tears of a woman of Cleophas. That painting of this scene shows a (*) swooning blue-clad woman in a T-shaped pose matching that of her son. Famous versions of this scene were done by Rogier van der Weyden and Pieter Paul Rubens, the latter of whom showed Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea atop ladders wrapping a white cloth around a body. For 10 points, in what artistic scene is Jesus lowered from the cross? 
The BBC Documentary The Private Life of a Masterpiece argued that a rendition of this scene housed at the Prado may be the most important painting of the fifteenth century.
The Descent from the Cross [or The Deposition from the Cross] 