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Triptych
Also titled Drieluik
c. 1525
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- triptych
- Dimensions
- painted surface: height 37 cm (centre panel) x width 25.5 cm (centre panel) x height 32.5 cm (left wing) x width 10 cm (left wing) x height 31.8 cm (right wing) x width 9.7 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
Depicted at the centre of this triptych is The Crucifixion. On the wings Saint Peter and Saint James stand behind the couple who commissioned this private altar. The donors, dressed in black, kneel in adoration before the crucified Christ. Thus included, they appear to participate in Christ’s sacrifice on the cross at Golgotha outside Jerusalem where criminals were executed.
