The Crucifixion
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
The spear has already gone in. Longinus sits his horse a little behind the cross, still holding it; at the lower left the Virgin has fainted and John, the Magdalene and the other women hold her up. Everyone is dealing with what has just happened.
Except the children. On the hill at the upper left, small figures point at the cross from a distance, spectators. Wikipedia, citing the Met's 1988 Siena catalogue, says no painter had put them there before. One of five little panels from beneath Benvenuto's Ascension altarpiece of 1491, this is the one with an audience.
Sources: Wikipedia, 'Benvenuto di Giovanni', section on the Washington predella, note 9 (= Met 1988 catalogue). · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Crucifixion', Benvenuto di Giovanni; exhibition history. · National Gallery of Art, artist biography, Benvenuto di Giovanni (NGA Systematic Catalogue); dates from the NGA artist page. · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection record, 'The Crucifixion', K1647B. · Google Arts & Culture, National Gallery of Art, 'Christ in Limbo', Benvenuto di Giovanni. · John 19:34, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water.
John 19:34 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 7,376 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.