A man is nailed to a wooden cross, and two people sit, one to each side, on the sand-colored ground with their bodies angled inward, all against a gold background in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin with a greenish cast, and gold halos. The crossbar of the T-shaped cross nearly touches the top edge of the composition. On the cross, Jesus’s body and head are angled to our left. His head tips down, and his eyes are dark slits. Scarlet-red blood streams down his arms from nails in each hand and spurts from a gash over his right ribs. Blood pours from the nail pinning both…
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The Crucifixion

Sano di Pietro (Sienese, 1405 - 1481)

c. 1445/1450

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 24.1 x 33.6 cm (9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.) ; framed: 33 x 44.1 x 4.3 cm (13 x 17 3/8 x 1 11/16 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
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed

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