# Christ Carrying the Cross

- By: Quinten Massijs (I) (Louvain, 1466–1530)
- Date: c. 1510 - c. 1515
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 83 cm x width 59 cm
- Credit line: De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4048--899f7954a01d256d945e1b80a524c47b)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1901e8e18a0e1c40cd2855b3abfe2297.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.