# Crucifixion of Christ, with the Virgin and St John

- By: anonymous
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Private gift
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5049--cb002e4024d5b74a375cc7d4256ccc96)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/277535bb5f1d5ed8a0e33a70d75d6e88.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.