Christ Carrying the Cross
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The large ruin on the right is real: the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, and Poelenburch has run the road to Golgotha through its arched doorway. Arthur Wheelock's reading is that the tomb was chosen for its association with death, and that the procession passes through it as darkness settles over the land.
Christ in purple, bent under the cross, looks back at Veronica kneeling with her cloth; John hides his eyes in a red sleeve; Longinus rides ahead on a rearing horse. Veronica comes from the Golden Legend, not from any Gospel. The hill is a long way off.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Christ Carrying the Cross', Cornelis van Poelenburch, early 1620s, 2007.49.1, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund; read 2026-09-01. · Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., 'Cornelis van Poelenburch, Christ Carrying the Cross, early 1620s', Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions, published 24 April 2014
And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
John 19:17 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,359 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.