early Netherlandish religious painting, Rogier van der Weyden’s “The Descent From the Cross.” A large Good Friday scene some 8 1/2 feet wide, the oil-on-panel work, dated before 1443 ...

Van der Weyden’s depiction of Saint Luke is a meditation on attention as much as painting I often study the expression on the face of Saint Luke in this masterpiece by Rogier van der Weyden at ...