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Dimensions. 76 cm × 55 cm (30 in × 21.5 in) Location. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. Crucifixion is an oil painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. One of many versions of the subject painted by Cranach, this one, created in 1532, is now in the Indianapolis Museum of Art .
- 76 cm × 55 cm (30 in × 21.5 in)
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- 1532
Lucas Cranach the Elder. German, 1472 (?)-1553. In this crowded scene, traditional vignettes from the Crucifixion story surround the central figure of Jesus Christ on the cross. Jesus’s mother, the Virgin Mary, swoons amid a group of believers in the lower left corner.
Painting on beech wood. [NGA online database, accessed 23.11.2021] [Klein, Report 1994] In 'The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion', Lucas Cranach the Elder chose to portray a scene of religious redemption.
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Title: The Crucifixion; Creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder; Creator Lifespan: 1472/1553; Creator Nationality: german; Creator Gender: male; Creator Death Place: Weimar; Creator Birth...
Created in the orbit of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, this painting represents an episode from the Bible: as Christ utters His final words (“Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit”), a Roman centurion experiences a religious conversion, recognizing that “Truly this man was the Son of God.”
Lucas Cranach, who became court painter to the Elector of Saxony in 1505, is generally known as the creator of delicate limbed female nudes, whose manneristic elegance imparts all of them with...
Title: The Crucifixion. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar) Date: 1502. Medium: Woodcut. Dimensions: sheet: 16-1/8 x 11-1/2 in. (40.8 x 29.3 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927. Accession Number: 27.54.2.
