The Elevation of the Cross or The Raising of the Cross is the title of a large triptych painted in oil on panel by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp in the years 1610 and 1611. It hangs
Peter Paul Rubens Raising of the Cross
Closed view showing Saints Amand and Walburga (left) and Saints Eligius and Catherine of Alexandria (right)
Study for the figure of Jesus
High Altar of the St. Walburga Church showing the Raising of the Cross in its original setting (drawn by Piet Verhaert after an old painting)
The Descent from the Cross is the central panel of a triptych painting by the Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1612–1614. It is still in its original place, the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belg
The Elevation of the Cross (Rubens)
…St. Walburga Church was closed after French Revolutionary armies occupied Antwerp in 1693. The triptych was taken to Paris in 1794, along with Rubens's The Descent from the Cross. The artwork was returned to Antwerp at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, but since the Church of St. Walburga had become a ruin and was later…
Peter Paul Rubens The Descent from the Cross., c. 1613
Peter Paul Rubens Descent from the Cross WGA20215
The triptych describes the Visitation, the Descent from the Cross, and the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.
Descent from the Cross (c. 1545), before its 2004 restoration - Daniele da Volterra - Trinità dei Monti, Rome