Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns) c.1510 Oil on oak, 73.8 × 59 cm National Gallery, London Christ stares calmly out at us from the heart of this picture, his serenity a vivid contrast to the brutality of…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1504–1505 Tempera, oil, and gilding on panel, 72.5 x 101.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz con un paisaje de Toledo (Christ on the Cross with a View of Toledo) c.1610–1614 Oil on canvas, 104.1 x 61.9 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Catedral Primada Santa María de…
Guercino (1591-1666) Testa di Cristo con la corona di spine (Head of Christ with the Crown of Thorns) c.1621 Oil on copper, 28.5 × 24 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) The Descent from the Cross before 1443 Oil on panel, 204.5 x 261.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Descent from the Cross was painted for the Chapel of Our Lady Outside the Walls at Leuven, which…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin 1475 Oil and gold leaf on wood panel, 27.4 × 19.9 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Gesù che porta la croce (Carrying of the Cross) 1560s Oil on canvas, 89 x 77 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Beginning in the 1530s Renaissance culture entered a period of decline in Italy. Venice remained the last bastion of…