About two dozen men and women are gathered mainly in three groups in a grassy landscape in this nearly square panel. The action revolves around a man, Jesus, carrying a cross at the center of the composition. The people all have pale skin and wear robes, dresses, or tunics tomato red, cobalt blue, spruce green, deep yellow, gray, or white. Jesus wears a rose-pink robe, and blood trickles across his head from a ring of thorns thrust down over his shoulder-length brown hair. His flat, disk-like halo is gold with a red cross like a plus sign, and a tall wooden cross is braced across one…
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Christ Carrying the Cross

Benvenuto di Giovanni (Sienese, 1436 - before 1517)

probably 1491

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 41.4 × 47.4 cm (16 5/16 × 18 11/16 in.) ; overall size: 42.8 × 50.1 cm (16 7/8 × 19 3/4 in.) ; framed (with four other paintings): 59.69 × 283.21 × 5.4 cm (23 1/2 × 111 1/2 × 2 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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