The Crucifixion with Four Angels
c. 1475
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 29.3 × 19.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-204993
Martin Schongauer engraved several variations of the Crucifixion, often inspired by fifteenth-century Netherlandish paintings of the same subject. Here, upon a realistic landscape, the exaggeratedly thin and emaciated body of Christ hangs on the cross.The Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist are mourning Christ's death at each side of the cross. Four hovering angels catch the blood from Christ's wounds and collect it in chalices. At the bottom of the cross, a bone and the skull of Adam, lie on the ground, and allude to Golgotha, the site of Christ's crucifixion, believed to be the spot w…
Provenance
Hanna Jr., 1947.483
Registry history
- c. 1475 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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