Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and Saint John
Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553)
1503
- Medium
- woodcut on vellum, hand colored with watercolor
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.7 x 16.2 cm (8 15/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The first carved woodblocks were printed on textiles or vellum until about 1400, when the supply of paper became more abundant.
