A man hangs on a cross flanked by small groups of people against a shiny gold background in this vertical panel painting. The people all have pale skin tinged with gray. The man on the cross, Jesus, has long blond hair and a beard, and he wears only a translucent white cloth wrapped around his hips. Blood trickles from nails driven through his hands and one driven through both feet. Blood also spurts from a wound over his right ribs. A halo surrounds his head, which hangs down, eyes closed. The wood cross is about twice as tall as the people standing around it, and a panel at the top has the…
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The Crucifixion

painter Bernardo Daddi (Florentine, active by 1320, died probably 1348)

c. 1320/1325

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface (including gilded frame): 34.9 × 22.7 cm (13 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.) ; overall: 35.5 × 23.6 × 2.7 cm (14 × 9 5/16 × 1 1/16 in.) ; framed: 40 x 27.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 in.)
Culture
Florentine
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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