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Triptych with the Crucifixion
Also titled Drieluik met de kruisiging
c. 1460
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- triptych
- Dimensions
- support: height 85.5 cm (centre panel) x width 56 cm (centre panel) x height 85.5 cm (left wing) x width 28 cm (left wing) x height 85.3 cm (right wing) x width 28 cm (right wing)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The Crucifixion at centre is set against the background of the city of Utrecht. Thus the biblical scene acquired a certain reality for the medieval viewer. At left is Pope Gregory the Great, who experienced a vision of Christ while celebrating Mass. At right is Saint Christopher who bears the Christ Child and the burden of mankind on his shoulders.
