Tag: Jesus

Ecce Homo (c. 1493)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Ecce Homo (Christ as Man of Sorrows) c.1493 Oil on panel 30 x 19 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Virgen con el Niño (1670s)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Virgen con el Niño (Virgin and Child) 1670s Oil on canvas, 165.7 x 109.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like Zurbarán and Velázquez, Murillo was trained in Seville, where he spent his whole career. Often referred…

Crucifixión (c.1675)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…

Sagrada Familia del pajarito (c.1650)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Sagrada Familia del pajarito (Holy Family with a Bird) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 144 x 188 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A domestic scene filled with tenderness showing the Virgin Mary winding a skein of thread and…

Cristo crucificado (c.1632)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo crucificado (Christ Crucified) c.1632 Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Stylistically, this work appears to have been made in the early 1630s -soon after the artist returned from Italy– and most authors…

Cristo en la cruz (1631)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1631 Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Unlike the Christ Crucified (P1161) from the convent of San Plácido, whose authorship and extraordinary merits are…

Ben-Hur (1959)

Director: William Wyler Producer: Sam Zimbalist Screenplay: Karl Tunberg Based on: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace Narrated by: Finlay Currie Genre: Epic | Historical | Biblical | Drama Music: Miklós Rózsa Country: United States Language: English…

Cristo crucificado (1780)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Cristo crucificado (Christ on the Cross) 1780 Oil on canvas, 255 x 154 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The figure of Christ is depicted following the tradition of seventeenth-century Spanish religious painting, although the classical concept of…

Corpus Hypercubus (1954)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Corpus Hypercubus (Crucifixion) 1954 Oil on canvas, 194.3 x 123.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dalí utilized his theory of “nuclear mysticism,” a fusion of Catholicism, mathematics, and science, to create this unusual interpretation of Christ’s…