Crucifixion

works by

• Angelico
  • 
    In Fra Angelico: Years at the priory of San Marco

    …hall, he executed a large Crucifixion that seems akin to the “Moralities” of the 14th century, which urged detachment from worldly vanities and salvation through Christ alone. In addition to the three crucified figures against the sky, Angelico painted groups of ritual figures, rhythmically arranged, with a chorus of martyrs,…

    Read More
• Antonello da Messina
  • 
    In Antonello da Messina

    His earliest known works, a Crucifixion (c. 1455) and St. Jerome in His Study (c. 1460), already show Antonello’s characteristic combination of Flemish technique and realism with typically Italian modeling of forms and clarity of spatial arrangement.

    Read More
• Bellini, Giovanni
  • 
    In Giovanni Bellini

    They include a Crucifixion, a Transfiguration, and a Dead Christ Supported by Angels. Several pictures of the same or earlier date are in the United States, and others are at the Correr Civic Museum in Venice. Four triptychs, sets of three panels used as altarpieces, are still in…

    Read More
• Bellini, Jacopo
  • 
    In Jacopo Bellini

    In the life-sized “Crucifixion” (Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona), the spare and sombre scene strictly conforms to the Florentine Renaissance style of Masaccio and repudiates the rich colouring and courtly grace of Bellini’s earlier known works.

    Read More
• Castagno
  • 
    In Andrea del Castagno

    …single composition above that, a Crucifixion, a Deposition, and a Resurrection—all executed in 1447 for the refectory of the former Convent of Sant’Apollonia in Florence, now known as the Cenacolo di Sant’Apollonia. These monumental frescoes, revealing the influence of Masaccio’s pictorial illusionism and Castagno’s own use of scientific perspective, received…

    Read More
• Giunta Pisano
  • 
    In Giunta Pisano

    …church of Assisi, notably a “Crucifixion” dated 1236, with a figure of Father Elias, the general of the Franciscans, embracing the cross, but this painting no longer exists. Three large Crucifixions are ascribed to the same master, whose signature can be traced on them. One is in Santissimo Raineri e…

    Read More
• Heemskerck
  • 
    In Maerten van Heemskerck

    …his maturity are a great Crucifixion altarpiece (1538–43; Linköping cathedral, Sweden) and a painting, also a Crucifixion (1543). He also painted portraits, among them a self-portrait with the Colosseum (1553) and the well-known Portrait of a Woman at the Spinning Wheel (c. 1531). From 1548 onward he produced many designs…

    Read More
• Justus of Ghent
  • In Justus of Ghent

    …Justus’s earliest known painting, the Crucifixion triptych (c. 1465), the attenuated, angular figures and the barren landscape articulated by short, taut curves reveal the influence of the painter Dieric Bouts. The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1466) shows the continued influence of Bouts in its figures. In 1473–74 Justus of…

    Read More
• Perugino
  • In Perugino: Mature work

    …and the fresco of the Crucifixion for the Florentine convent of Sta. Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. These works are characterized by ample sculptural figures gracefully posed in simple Renaissance architectural settings, which act as a frame to the images and the narrative. The harmonious space is tightly controlled in the…

    Read More
• Picasso
  • 
    In Pablo Picasso: Surrealism

    …(drawings and paintings of the Crucifixion [1930–35]). In the 1930s Picasso, like many of the Surrealist writers, often played with the idea of metamorphosis. For example, the image of the minotaur, the monster of Greek mythology—half bull and half human—that traditionally has been seen as the embodiment of the struggle…

    Read More
• Stainer
  • In Passion music

    …composer Sir John Stainer’s The Crucifixion (1887) achieved great popularity. Passion music of the 20th century includes an oratorio St. Luke Passion of Krzysztof Penderecki, a Polish composer, St. Mark Passions by Charles Wood (England), Lorenzo Perosi (Italy), and Kurt Thomas (Germany), and The Passion of Christ by Arthur Somervell…

    Read More
  • 
    In Sir John Stainer

    …although his best-known oratorio, The Crucifixion (1887), is also performed in other English-speaking countries. He wrote songs as well as cantatas, services, anthems, and other music for the church service. He also published treatises on the organ and music theory and collaborated on a dictionary of musical terms. Stainer’s most…

    Read More
• Tintoretto
  • 
    In Tintoretto: Career

    In 1565 his immense Crucifixion was displayed in the Sala dell’Albergo. Around Christ, in the centre, many figures revolve in a livid light that, muting the picture’s colours, invests it with dramatic power. The decoration of the chamber was completed in 1567; it included other scenes of Christ’s Passion,…

    Read More