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[1] [2] The Abbey of Grandmont attracted the patronage of King Henry II of England (1154-1189) who donated large sums of money during his life and upon his death for expensive adornments including reliquaries and liturgical objects such as the Spitzer Cross. [2] The cross once held ten plaques; five on its face and five on the reverse side.
The figure is stylistically similar to the Christ in Titian's earlier Christ on the Cross (The Escorial, c.1555). [6] The bronze and yellow tones of Christ's skin were used often in paintings of the Venetian Renaissance, but with the Crucifixion the application of this sickly hue is unusually bold, and with a high degree of contrast across the ...
The tau cross is a T-shaped cross, sometimes with all three ends of the cross expanded. [1] It is called a "tau cross" because it is shaped like the Greek letter tau , [ 2 ] which in its upper-case form has the same appearance as the Latin letter T .
The Imperial Cross (Latin: Cross Imperatoria, German: Reichskreuz) is part of the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire. It served as the container for the two "Great Relics of Christ" ( Perveniens Reilquias magna Christi , Großen Reliquien Christi ): the Holy Lance in its horizontal arms and the reliquary of the True Cross in the lower shaft.
The work is painted in egg tempera with gold leaf on wood with dimensions of 69.2 cm (27.25 in) x 54.6 cm (21.5 in). The icon was finished towards the end of the 15th century. Christ is shown carrying a cross. The scene is the traditional Golgotha portion of the Crucifixion sequence. The soldiers on the right are dressed in armor modeled after ...
Its dimensions are highly symmetrical and proportionate, probably influenced by the geometric ideals, ratios and rules of design of the ancient Greeks. The balance of measurements, especially between the width and height of the cross, seem derived from the sides and diagonals of squares, and dynamic rectangles . [ 23 ]
The Three Crosses is a 1653 print in etching and drypoint by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, which depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Most of his prints are mainly in etching and this one is a drypoint with burin adjustments from the third state onwards. [1] It is considered "one of the most dynamic prints ever made". [2]
The Deposition from the Cross is a painting of the Deposition of Christ by the Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico, executed between 1432 and 1434. It is now housed in the National Museum of San Marco, Florence. Giorgio Vasari described it as appearing to have been "painted by a saint or an angel".