In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at the foot of three men hanging from wooden crosses nearly fill the scene. All the people have pale or ruddy skin. To our left of center, each of the crucified men is tied and nailed to a cross. Blood pours from their hands and feet, and from a gash over the central man’s right ribs. The men’s heads slump and their bodies sag. They are nude except for a red cloth across the central man’s hips and a small white loincloth on the man to our right. Two of the men wear crowns of thorns. The…
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The Crucifixion

Luca Signorelli (Cortonese, 1445/1450 - 1523)

c. 1504/1505

Medium
tempera, oil, and gilding on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 72.5 × 101.3 cm (28 9/16 × 39 7/8 in.) ; framed: 94.93 × 123.67 × 11.43 cm (37 3/8 × 48 11/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Culture
Umbrian
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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