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Title

Crucifixion

Artist

Artist Unknown, Italy

Physical Description

Wooden scultpure of the body of Jesus Christ as it would appear crucified on a cross.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1600-1699

Accession Number

2009/2.10

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 10.86337

Primary Keywords

crosses (motifs)

crucifixions

Title

The Lamentation

Artist

Hans Baldung Grien

Physical Description

Three grief-striken figures lament over the body of a dead man lying on the ground before them. One of these figures, a robed woman who clasps her hands in agony, leans forward to peer into the face of the dead man, who is rendered with dramatic foreshortening. To the left of this woman sits a long-haired man wiping his eyes while another woman with wild unkempt hair seated next to him raises her arms in abject sorrow. Three nails and a pair of vessels sit in the immediate foreground next to the artist's initials "HGB."

Artist Life Dates

1484/85-1545

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1515-1517

Accession Number

1960/1.168

Medium and Support

woodcut on paper

relevance

rank 10.62709

Primary Keywords

christianity

crucifixions

grief

ladders

woodcuts

Title

Descent from the Cross

Artist

Ugo da Carpi

Physical Description

This print depicts the body of a man being lowered from a cross. Two men lean over the top of the cross to remove the nails from the dead man's hands and pass his body down to two other men standing on ladders. Three women and a man lay on the ground in mourning at the foot of the cross.

Artist Life Dates

ca. 1440 - after 1525

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1440-1535

Accession Number

1960/1.176

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 10.40088

Primary Keywords

chiaroscuro woodcuts

crosses (objects)

crucifixions

deaths

ladders

Title

The Good Thief on the Cross

Artist

Artist Unknown, School of Kalkar, Germany

Physical Description

A bearded man, wearing a loincloth and a long trailing headband, hangs from a cross by his arms, which have split open beneath the ropes that bind them. His left leg hangs downward and passes behind his right foot, which perches precariously on a forked branch. He strains to his left and gazes upward with his mouth open in a tortured movement augmented by the dramatic sweeps of drapery that frame his torso.

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1520

Accession Number

1976/1.233

Medium and Support

walnut with polychrome

relevance

rank 10.40088

Primary Keywords

altarpieces

christianity

crucifixions

loincloths

rhineland (historical region)

Title

Crucifixion with Saint Bartholomew and Two Male Saints

Artist

Domenico Campagnola

Physical Description

An ink drawing of Jesus Christ crucified on the cross. Around the cross are three male saints, one of whom is identified as Saint Bartholomew. All three look up at Jesus while one kneels on the ground, holding with his left hand the bottom of the cross. In the distant background are buildings of a city.

Artist Life Dates

(1500 - 1564)

Object Creation Date

1525-1564

Accession Number

2009/1.524

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 10.40088

Primary Keywords

cross (object)

crucifixions

jesus christ

saints'

Title

Mourning Virgin from Crucifixion group

Artist

Artist Unknown, Spain or Belgium

Physical Description

This standing figure of the Virgin turns slightly toward the left with her head bowed and hands clasped before her in a restrained expression of grief. Her robe is gilded, which contributes a regal note to this somber figure.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1450-1500

Accession Number

1975/2.197

Medium and Support

wood, paint and gilding

relevance

rank 10.29135

Primary Keywords

castile (historical region)

christianity

crucifixions

gilding

grief

mourners

Title

Sanctification cross with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists

Artist

Artist Unknown, Greece

Physical Description

This small carved boxwood cross is divided on each face into five compartments containing Christian religious scenes. The cross is set in a stand decorated with mother-of-pearl and green glass-paste stones.

Century

17th-18th century

Object Creation Date

1650-1800

Accession Number

1961/1.177

Medium and Support

boxwood with pearls and glass-paste stones

relevance

rank 10.29135

Primary Keywords

baptisms

christianity

crosses (objects)

crucifixions

greece (nation)

hell

Title

The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)

Artist

Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy

Physical Description

This carved bone sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary raising her right hand in a gesture of grief while her head is bent in mourning. A similar female figure, holding her hands clasped before her, appears in profile behind the Virgin, and another female figure stands to the left. Behind the mourning women the pointed helmets worn by two soldiers may be discerned.

Century

14th-15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1400

Accession Number

1976/2.102

Medium and Support

bone

relevance

rank 10.29135

Primary Keywords

altarpieces

bone

carvings

christianity

crucifixions

venice (inhabited place)

Title

The Deposition of Christ

Artist

Guglielmo della Porta

Physical Description

A small crowd of figures gathers around the body of a dead man and a fainting woman in the center of this bronze panel. The dead man's body and the two men holding his burial shroud appear in the foreground, while the fainting woman and the three women and the man who support her are positioned immediately above and behind them. Another woman with loose, flowing hair leans forward to kiss the left hand of the dead man, uniting the two parts of this central group. Four other male figures, rendered in slightly smaller scale and lower relief, look on from the sides. Three crosses provide the backdrop to the drama. The central cross is empty, yet two twisting nude males are suspended from the crosses on either side.

Artist Life Dates

1515-1577

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1564

Accession Number

1962/2.20

Medium and Support

bronze relief

relevance

rank 10.18410

Primary Keywords

bronze (metal)

christianity

crowd

crucifixions

rome (inhabited place)

shrouds

Title

Processional cross with triumphant Christ (Christus triumphans) flanked by busts of the evangelists, Saints Matthew, John, Mark, and Luke (obverse); and suffering Christ (Christus patiens) flanked by busts of the Virgin Mary, God the father, Saint John and unidentified male saint with cross (Saint Philip?) (reverse)

Artist

Neri di Bicci

Physical Description

The arms of the cross end in quatrefoil-shaped terminals. The front (obverse) is gilded and features a molding along the edges. The back (reverse) has a deep azurite blue ground and a gilded band punched with tiny rosettes that runs along the border.

Artist Life Dates

1418-1492

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1475

Accession Number

1942.6

Medium and Support

tempera and gold on wood

relevance

rank 9.97617

Primary Keywords

cross (object)

crucifixions

early renaissance

florence (inhabited place)

panel paintings

processions

Title

Crucifixion

Artist

Bartolommeo da Brescia

Physical Description

From the height of a cross, a crucified man, wearing a crown of thorns and a loincloth, looms over a dramatic landscape. Three heads with wings appear near the top of the cross, and a skull and crossed bones lay at its base. A vast prospect of distant mountains and a bustling port unfolds through the background.

Artist Life Dates

1506 - 1576 or 1578

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1565-1576

Accession Number

1970/1.177

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 9.67972

Primary Keywords

brescia (province)

christianity

crucifixions

etching (printing process)

harbors

landscapes (representations)

putti

skull (skeleton component)