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The Crucifixion
(c. 1349)
- Medium
- tempera and oil on wood panel
- Measurements
- 96.8 × 67.7 cm
- Accession Number
- 1966-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts
Level 1, NGV International - About this work
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The iconography and style of this painting show all the masterful blending of Byzantine and Gothic elements for which Paolo, the most influential Venetian artist of the fourteenth century, was renowned. It is very close in style to a Crucifixion that forms part of a polyptych in the Oratory of San Martino at Chioggia, a work executed by Veneziano in 1348 – the year the Black Death reached Venice, killing one third of the population of that city.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Religion and Mythology Violence
- Subjects (specific)
- angels (spirits) blood (animal material) Crucifixion of Christ (New Testament narrative) crucifixions Jesus Christ (Christian character) Passion of Christ (New Testament narrative) religious characters