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Christ Carrying the Cross

Creator

Flemish painter (1466-1530) · 1466–1530

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Date: c. 1510 - c. 1515
Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
Culture: Antwerp
Institution: Rijksmuseum

Here Massijs, a leading artist in early 16th-century Antwerp, paints an intense picture of Jesus’s suffering. Jesus appears close to the foreground, connecting almost tangibly with the viewer: bloodied and bowed under the weight of the cross. This penetrating depiction helped worshippers empathise with Jesus’s pain.

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