A thin, haggard, olive-skinned, nearly nude man is nailed to a wooden cross in this vertical painting. His body is stretched and elongated between wide-spread hands. Blood trickles from where each hand has been nailed to the cross and from a gash over his right ribs, on our left. The blood from the nail in his overlapping feet drips down the shallow platform on which they rest, down the foot of the cross, and onto the ground. His head droops down to our left, eyes closed and shaded under deeply furrowed brows. Blood also seeps from the ring of thorns around his long, coppery-red hair. He has…
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Christ on the Cross [reverse]

painter Andrea di Bartolo (Sienese, active from 1389 - died 1428)

c. 1380/1390

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 30 × 18.6 cm (11 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.) ; overall: 30 × 18.6 × 0.8 cm (11 13/16 × 7 5/16 × 5/16 in.) ; framed: 52.7 x 34.3 x 7.9 cm (20 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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