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Calvary — Antonello da Messina
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Calvary

Antonello da Messina (Italian, c. 1430–1479)
Date 1475
Collection KMSKA, Antwerp
Subject Crucifixion
Season Lent, Holy Week
Master 7,247 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) · 4

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Antonello da Messina
Date 1475
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 52,5 × 42,5 cm
Holding Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) · 4

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Calvarieberg, Antonello da Messina, 1475, Koninlijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 4.jpg
Master 7,247 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting

Sizes

sheet 16×20 in · image 14.5×20 in · archival margin · 362 dpi
sheet 18×24 in · image 17.3×24 in · archival margin · 302 dpi
sheet 24×36 in · image 24×33.2 in · archival margin · 218 dpi

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About this painting

Skulls litter the ground beneath the cross — medieval tradition held one was Adam's, buried at Golgotha. Serpents wind among the skulls, death made visible. A green shoot rises from a trunk cut dead beside the cross — the New Covenant grown out of the Old.

The two thieves hang from bare, truncated trees; Christ alone hangs on a carpentered cross, set apart even in his execution. Soldiers ride back toward Jerusalem, having just pierced his side.

Antonello signed and dated the panel himself: 1475.

Sources: KMSKA object page · Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Flemish Primitives, collection entry 'Calvary' (KMSKA) · Cavallini to Veronese entry

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.

John 19:25 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 7,247 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.