A mostly nude, thin man, Jesus, hangs by his outstretched hands from a wooden cross and is flanked by two people, one on each side of the cross in this round painting. Against a shiny gold background, the cross and two people stand on a gray stone platform that forms a base at the bottom. The two people below have peachy skin, and Jesus’s skin has a gray cast. All of their heads are encircled with flat, gold, disk-like halos. Eyes closed, Jesus’s face tips down to our left, and his body faces us. He has a copper-brown, forked beard, a prominent nose, and his lips are parted. Blood trickles…
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The Crucifixion

Francesco del Cossa (Ferrarese, c. 1436 - 1477/1478)

c. 1473/1474

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (diameter of painted surface): 60 × 63.2 cm (23 5/8 × 24 7/8 in.) ; framed: 103.51 × 102.87 × 18.42 cm (40 3/4 × 40 1/2 × 7 1/4 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
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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