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Crucifixion of Christ, with the Virgin and St John
Also titled Kruisiging van Jezus met Maria en Johannes
c. 1535 - c. 1540
- Medium
- silver leaf, lacquer (coating), paint (coating), gold leaf, glass
- Classification
- reverse painting on glass
- Dimensions
- height 26 cm x width 18 cm x height 40.1 cm x width 32.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Private gift
- 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
Tyrolean glass painters often used engravings by the Italian artist Marcantonio Raimondi as a model. That is the case for this reverse-glass painting: the glass painter only added the splendid starry sky. The process of glass painting is the reverse of that for an ordinary painting: fine details are applied first on the back of the glass panel and the rest of the image is subsequently steadily worked up around them.
