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Christ embracing Saint Bernard
Francisco Ribalta (Solsona, Lérida, Spain, 1565 - Valencia, Spain, 1628)
Date 1625 - 1627
Collection Museo Nacional del Prado
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,051 px
License Public domain
Sizes
8×10 in$49
About this painting
Christ takes his own arms off the cross. The Prado's account is exact — he unnails both hands to hold the monk, who seems to float weightless in them with an expression of extraordinary tenderness. Light rakes in from the left so that only these two are lit and nothing else can distract you from the embrace. Antonio Ponz saw the picture in the prior's cell at the Portaceli charterhouse around 1774 and wrote that beside it everything else seems nothing.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,051 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.