The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
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It was painted around 1624 and built to look a century older. The Met says the rigorous symmetry, the flat star-studded sky and the contorted bleeding body deliberately refer to early sixteenth-century German painting, which collectors of ter Brugghen's day wanted. The reason is not nostalgia. This is a Catholic picture made in Protestant Utrecht for private prayer, and the Virgin and John standing either side of the cross are surrogates for the person kneeling in front of it.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John', accession 56.228; read 2026-08-27. · Wayne Franits, 'Hendrick ter Brugghen's Paintings of the Crucifixion in New York and Turin and the Problem of His Early Chronology', Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9, no. 1 (2017), DOI 10.5092/jhna.2017.9.1.3; open access, read 2026-08-27.
When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.
John 19:26 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 5,943 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.