The Descent from the Cross. Artist: Master of the Holy Blood (Netherlandish, ca. 1520). Dimensions: Central panel, overall 36 x 28 1/2 in. (91.4 x 72.4 cm), painted surface 35 5/8 x 28 1/2 in. (90.5 x 72.4 cm); left panel, overall 36 x 12 3/8 in. (91.4 x 31.4 cm), painted surface 35 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.(90.2 x 31.4 cm); right panel, overall 35 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (91.1 x 32.1 cm), painted surface 35 3/8 x 12 1/2 in. (89.9 x 31.8 cm).The Master of the Holy Blood, an uninventive and repetitive artist who appears to have been trained in Antwerp and to have settled in Bruges, takes his name from a Lamentation altarpiece in the Heilig Bloedmuseum, Bruges. The center panel of the present work is a late reflection of a lost but often copied Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden. To this essentially fifteenth-century composition have been added wings with individual saints that show the influence of the early-sixteenth-century Antwerp painter, Quentin Massys. There is in-painting al