A wooden, T-shaped cross, with a man nailed to its crossbeam, is raised so it stands vertically as men and women look on against a grassy, hilly landscape in this horizonal painting. The painting is made up of three parts: a vertical rectangular panel at the center and a tall, narrow rectangular panel to each side. The people all have pale, ruddy, or tanned skin. The cross is being pushed up from behind by two men with poles and pulled up on the front side by three men pulling on two ropes. The man on the cross, Jesus, is nude except for a white cloth across his hips. Blood trickles from…
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The Raising of the Cross [center, left, and right panels]

painter Master of the Starck Triptych (German, active c. 1480 - c. 1495)

c. 1480/1490

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (center panel): 66 x 48.3 cm (26 x 19 in.) ; framed (right panel): 65.4 x 24 x 3 cm (25 3/4 x 9 7/16 x 1 3/16 in.) ; framed (center panel): 65.3 x 48.3 x 3 cm (25 11/16 x 19 x 1 3/16 in.) ; framed (left panel): 65.6 x 24 x 3 cm…
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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