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The Crucifixion
(c. 1349)
Medium
tempera and oil on wood panel
Measurements
96.8 × 67.7 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949
Gallery location
14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts
Level 1, NGV International
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
1966-4
Department
International Painting
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