Three men hang on wooden crosses above people crowded below in this square panel painting. The crucified men wear only white cloths across their hips, and their pale skin has a noticably green cast. A halo encircles the bent head of the man on the middle cross, Jesus, who wears a ring of thorns in his long, red hair. Blood trickles down his forehead and drips from nails driven through his hands and overlapped feet, and from a gash over his right ribs, to our left. Four miniature, winged angels are painted entirely in tones of dark cobalt blue fly in pairs on either side of his body. An…
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Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Crucifixion [middle panel]

Andrea di Vanni (Sienese, c. 1330 - 1413)

1380s

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 46.9 × 49 cm (18 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.) ; overall: 56.9 × 57.9 × 3.4 cm (22 3/8 × 22 13/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed

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