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Christ Carrying the Cross
Also titled De kruisdraging
Quinten Massijs (I) (Louvain, 1466–1530)
c. 1510 - c. 1515
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 83 cm x width 59 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- 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
Here Massijs, a leading artist in early 16th-century Antwerp, paints an intense picture of Jesus’s suffering. Jesus appears close to the foreground, connecting almost tangibly with the viewer: bloodied and bowed under the weight of the cross. This penetrating depiction helped worshippers empathise with Jesus’s pain.
