Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1940 Oil on canvas, 34 x 29.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia During the late 1930s Marc Chagall became increasingly aware of the plight of his fellow Jews in Europe and embarked on a…
El Greco (1541-1614) Pietà (Lamentation) Early 1570s Oil on panel, 28.9 × 20 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia El Greco was born in the Venetian territory of Crete and trained in Venice before moving to Rome. There he encountered the work…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (Exhibition of the Body of Saint Bonaventure) c.1629 Oil on canvas, 245 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for the church of the San Buenaventura college in Seville, around 1629;…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino tra San Giovanni Battista e San Girolamo (Madonna and Child between St. John the Baptist and St. Jerome) s.d. Oil on wood, 77 × 107 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion 1538 Oil on panel, 61.6 × 42.2 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Guercino (1591-1666) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness) 1652 Oil on canvas, 177.7 × 231.8 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Christ en croix (Christ on the Cross) c.1853–1856 Pastel on paper, 24.7 x 16.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) La deposizione dalla croce (The Descent from the Cross) c.1550 Oil on copperplate, 70 x 54 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Christ’s dead body is taken off the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and Saint John the…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Gesù bambino benedicente (The Infant Savior) c.1460 Tempera on canvas, 70.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Nearly filling this vertical painting, a young, light-skinned child stands with a delicate scepter tucked into one elbow as…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 193 x 116 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland El Greco (Spanish for “the Greek”) was trained on his native island, Crete, as a painter of…