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Crucifixions and crucifixes have appeared in the arts and popular culture from before the era of the pagan Roman Empire.The crucifixion of Jesus has been depicted in a wide range of religious art since the 4th century CE, frequently including the appearance of mournful onlookers such as the Virgin Mary, Pontius Pilate, and angels, as well as antisemitic depictions portraying Jews as ...
Unlike the gory post-crucifixion Jesus in morbid Spanish displays, Italian Christs die generally bloodlessly, and slump in a geometrically challenging display. As if emphasizing the dead Christ's inability to feel pain, a hand enters the wound at his side.
The Brunelleschi Crucifix is a polychrome painted wooden sculpture by the Italian artist Filippo Brunelleschi, made from pearwood around 1410-1415, and displayed since 1572 in the Gondi Chapel at the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. This idealised depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus measures around 170 cm × 170 cm (67 in × 67 in).
The earliest crucifixion in an illuminated manuscript, from the Rabbula Gospels, also shows the resurrection. The development of iconography of the Resurrection occurred at the same time as the ecumenical councils of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, that were specifically devoted to Christology. [7]
The Passion is notable for still not containing, among its thirteen scenes, a Crucifixion, and the Works contains eight miracles in its thirteen scenes. Neither of these features was to be typical of later art, but they are comparable to features of cycles in smaller objects of the period such as carved caskets and a gold pendant medallion of ...
This final sculpture revisited the theme of the Virgin Mary mourning over the emaciated body of the dead Christ, which he had first explored in his Pietà of 1499. Like his late series of drawings of the Crucifixion and the sculpture of the Deposition of Christ intended for his own tomb, it was produced at a time when Michelangelo's sense of ...
Ligier Richier et la sculpture en Lorraine au XVIe siècle : catalogue d’exposition, Musée de Bar-le-Duc, 11 octobre – 31 décembre 1985, 104 p. Bernard Noël, Paulette Choné, Ligier Richier : La Mise au Tombeau de Saint-Mihiel, photographie Jean-Luc Tartarin, Metz, S. Domini Éd., 1999, 63 p., (ISBN 9782912645173) Henri Zerner.
At the end of the 11th century wood sculpture flourished in Catalonia. Carvers used four main formats to represent the Crucifixion: 'Calvaries' where Jesus is represented on the cross with Mary and St. John the Apostle. 'Deposition Tableaux', or figures of the good and bad thieves Mary Magdalene, John the Apostle, Nicodemus, and Joseph of Arimathea