'The Descent from the Cross' (detail), c1520. Artist: Jan Gossaert

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'The Descent from the Cross' (detail), c1520. A stooping Joseph of Arimathea holds Christ's crown of thorns. Gossaert (c1478-1532) is usually seen as the founder of the Romanist art movement, the first group of Flemish painters to be influenced by the Italian Renaissance. From the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

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