One tall, rectangular panel is flanked by arched panels to each side, all set within a carved, painted, gilded wooden frame. The central panel shows two people at the foot of a wooden cross, to which a man is nailed, and the panels to each side are each occupied by a single person. All the people have pale skin and are shown against landscapes with rocky outcroppings along a river that extends into the deep distance. At the center of the middle panel, the man hangs from the cross from nails in his hands and one nail driven through his overlapping feet. He is nude except for the white…
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The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene

painter Pietro Perugino (Umbrian, c. 1450 - 1523)

c. 1482/1485

Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
left panel: 95 × 30.1 cm (37 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.) ; framed: 133.99 × 165.74 × 15.24 cm (52 3/4 × 65 1/4 × 6 in.)
Culture
Umbrian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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